54 Quotes by Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

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. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

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.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.