54 Quotes by Sugata Mitra

Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

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.

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.

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

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.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

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?