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 Read Quote
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it – an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don’t care. Why are we still teaching it? Sugata Mitra Read Quote
You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren’t happy and employers aren’t happy. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
Teachers say to me, ‘The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.’ But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it’s not obvious that it’s wrong. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
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. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
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. Sugata Mitra Read Quote
