Sugata Mitra

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an…

— Sugata Mitra

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that…

— Sugata Mitra

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what…

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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers…

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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing…

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“Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that…

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Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

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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…

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Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

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Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

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Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

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Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at…

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Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes…

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The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing…

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I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered…

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Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

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I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there…

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There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or…

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Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

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It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to…

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Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored…

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Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

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Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

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Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no…

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