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Learning Quotes by Sugata Mitra
- 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.
- My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
- 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…
- The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
- 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…
- Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
- Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
- People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with…
- 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.…
- Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
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