Sugata Mitra Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 12, 1952

Topics

JobCareYouTableGoWhy

When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.

Jimmy John Liautaud

LifeObstaclesWorldManagementFind

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

TodayWorldProblemsSolutionBasic

I feel like there are probably more films about white male friendships than almost any other types of movies.

Max Joseph

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Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Maximillian Degenerez

LiveYourselfFreeChooseSee

I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

Ann Cotton

CommunityPeopleChoicesRealityBad

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Andy Grove

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I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Miuccia Prada

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I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

Lloyd Blankfein

ConfidencePeopleSayingSituation

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

Denise Morrison

PowerPeoplePotentialExcitedGet

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

Brian Kilmeade

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I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.

Ciara Renee

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I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

Tilman J. Fertitta

CustomerYouSayWhyMinimum Wage

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