Sugata Mitra Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.”

“In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.”

“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.”

“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.”