Recently I've discovered Alan Kay - great computer scientist who coined the term "object oriented programming", which in his view was abused by newer languages like C++, founder of SmallTalk language and more. I highly recommend his talks and walking trail of references like Joe Armstrong (founder of Erlang), Ted Nelson (primary precursor of the Internet, who coined the term hypertext, labeled insane by pursuing his idea of the web for more than 50 years!).
In this talk Alan gives great overview of what we should consider when educating our children, gives just an amazing way of explaining environmental problems and other things with which our children will have to deal with. It's friendly to non-techies.
Here is Ted Nelson pitching his long lived idea to Google employees - if you are not interested in the idea you still can check out the ending for question and answer segment with snappy answers by Ted.
