Sugata Mitra quotes

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. (Sugata Mitra)
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 that? View quote
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Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all. View quote
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My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. View quote
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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 on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. View quote
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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 slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web. View quote
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I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. View quote
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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 where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves. View quote
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Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. View quote
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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 to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong. View quote
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Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness. (Sugata Mitra)
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. View quote
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Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer. View quote
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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 the West. View quote
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