Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
From Sugata Mitra
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.
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
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.
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.
I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
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 exposed to as the heroes of our time.
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