Sugata Mitra Quotes

• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

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  Education, Knowing, Important

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• 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.

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  Educational, Self, Organization

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• 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 It's outdated.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Broken

  "Build a School in the Cloud". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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

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  Skills, Imagination, Asking

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• My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.

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  Children, School, Adventure

  "TED2013 Launches With a Bang" by Brian Hoffstein, bigthink.com.

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• You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Giving

  "The Future Of Learning: Ericsson Networked Society Short Film Takes A Fascinating Look At Education And Technology", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

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  Teacher, Machines, Should

  Sugata Mitra (2006). “The Hole in the Wall: Self-Organising Systems in Education”, New York NY

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• The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• If children have interest, then Education happens

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  Children, Interest, Happens

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• The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

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  Lines, Wells, Bottom

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• Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

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  Answers, Bigs, Asks

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• 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.

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  Years, Information, Needs

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• Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Self

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• Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

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  Imagination, Memorization, Students

  "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Design

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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.

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  Children, School, Years

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• 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?

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  People, Google, Pages

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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.

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  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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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.

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  Teacher, Children, School

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

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  Children, Want

  "The child-driven education". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• 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.

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  Country, Teacher, School

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

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  Children, Profound, Peers

  "We Need Schools... Not Factories" by Sugata Mitra, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

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  Kids, Pace, Use

  "Slumdog professor" by Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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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.

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  Children, Wall, Connections

  "Slumdog professor". Interview with Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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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.

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  Teacher, Long, Google

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