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.
From Sugata Mitra
Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.
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.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
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.
Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.
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.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?
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