Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers. ' But you would be surprised … - Sugata Mitra

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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

Sugata Mitra

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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