Sugata Mitra Quotes

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

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

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?

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

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

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.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.