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 need it anymore. It's outdated. — 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 to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. — 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
