Sugata Mitra Quotes
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
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. It's outdated.
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.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
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, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
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.
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?
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
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 to go.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
