"The power of what we learn depends on how we represent it in our minds. We've seen how the same experience can lead to learning different action scripts by replacing certain polynemes with isonomes." As a result, the educational issue for Minsky becomes 'How do kids acquire representational skills?' "Each child learns, from time to time, various better ways to learn -- but no one understands how this is done."
NB: In this section, Minsky makes the interesting move of equating metacognition with the B-brain. I doubt that many developmentalists would agree with this move! However, it would be useful to speculate how B-brain concepts might alter the developmental study of metacognition.