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Sugata Mitra Biography

Sugata Mitra (Bengali: সুগত মিত্র; born 12 February 1952 ) is a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at the for-profit training company NIIT. He won the TED Prize 2013.

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

Education, Important, Knowing, Thing

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Educational, Happen, Letting, Organization, Self

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Bottom, Controlling, Learning, Lines, Wells

If children have interest, then Education happens

Children, Education, Happens, Interest

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?

Google, Pages, People, Wrong

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

Continuously, Engineers, Inspiration, Motivation, People, System

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.

Children, Confident, Groups, Material, School, Years

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

Imagination, Memorization, Students

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

Good, Information, Learn, Needs, Years

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.

Full, Google, Long, Rubbish, Takes, Teacher

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

Computers, Kids, Pace, Use

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

Broken, Fashionable, Inspiration, Motivation, Quite, Say

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.

Country, School, Schools, Teacher, Teachers, Various

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

Answers, Ask, Asks, Bigs, Questions

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

Apes, Become, Knowing, Make, Million, Years

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.

Children, Connection, Connections, Delhi, Slum, Wall

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

Access, Children, Peers, Profound, Vast

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

Machine, Machines, Replaced, Should, Teacher