In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is… — 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
