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.

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.

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.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

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

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.