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Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Educational Philosophy Teaching

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

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Build Kids Aspirations

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

Sugata Mitra Information Teachers Big

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

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Imagination Questions

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

Sugata Mitra Children Easy Know

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

Sugata Mitra Family Home Best

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.

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Brain Financial Political

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

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Children Understanding

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Students Rewarded

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

~ Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Machine Piece Prepares
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