13 Sugata Mitra Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sugata Mitra

Indian Educator

Born: Feb 12, 1952

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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. Sugata Mitra

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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

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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. Sugata Mitra

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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

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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. Sugata Mitra

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

Build Own Kids Computers Encouraging Pace Use Aspirations

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty. Sugata Mitra

Entertainment Poverty More Driver Powerful Than

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. Sugata Mitra

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Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness. Sugata Mitra

Imagination Students Rewarded

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

Fear Free Understanding Focused Magic Quest Children Information Innate Need

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine. Sugata Mitra

Education Machine Piece Prepares

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. Sugata Mitra

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