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. Sugata Mitra absenceadultahead share on social
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? Sugata Mitra adamantgooglelearn Change image and share on social
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? Sugata Mitra careemployerinterview Change image and share on social
There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship. Sugata Mitra developexistgood Change image and share on social
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. Sugata Mitra answerchildconstraint Change image and share on social
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. Sugata Mitra childcomputerconsider share on social
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. Sugata Mitra careerconstantlyexpose Change image and share on social
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. Sugata Mitra agebigbook share on social
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. Sugata Mitra answerfindfull Change image and share on social
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. Sugata Mitra communicatecreatecreator Change image and share on social
