Sugata Mitra Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.”

“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.”

“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.”