54 Quotes by Sugata Mitra

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

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.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

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.

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

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.