“Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
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… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed… — 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
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
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 Image
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
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 Image