Sugata Mitra Quotes

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• In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in…
• 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.
• Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
• 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 for…
• 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.…
• My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
• It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
• If children have interest, then Education happens
• A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
• The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But…
• You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to…
• The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
• 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 information,…
• Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.
• My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder…
• Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
• There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want…
• Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong…
• I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
• I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the…

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