It's not fair to talk about Alan Kay this way. Alan Kay actually did a ton of pioneering work in children's education, and in an applied (real-world) empirical

It's not fair to talk about Alan Kay this way. Alan Kay actually did a ton of pioneering work in children's education, and in an applied (real-world) empirical way, not just in a theoretical sense. He and some of his collaborators were among the earliest in applying Piaget and Bruner's learning models to programming education, mainly for learners under age 15.