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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 28 quotes by Sugata Mitra Sugata Mitra (Bengali: স গত ম ত ৰ; born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at NIIT. He is also the winner of the TED Prize 2013. Mitra has been described as a polymath by the University... Read full biography of Sugata Mitra → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 Ctrl → Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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.... → 0 The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning... → 0 You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. 0 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... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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