Indian - Educator | February 12, 1952 -
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
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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.
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Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.
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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.
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Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
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Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
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We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
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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.
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Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.
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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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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.
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You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.
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