Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
“Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place,… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share
