"It would be better, in a way, if……" — Sugata Mitra
"It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance."
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35 Quotes by Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra has 35 quotes on this site.
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard…
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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…
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Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
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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,…
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It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that…
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My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great…
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It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only…
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If children have interest, then Education happens
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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
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The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less…
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You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it.…
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The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
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