25+ Sugata Mitra Quotes On Education, Science And Religion

Sugata Mitra is an Indian educational technologist and Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and for his TED Talk "Build a School in the Cloud". He is also the recipient of the 2013 TED Prize for his proposal to create a School in the Cloud, an online learning lab where children can explore and learn from each other. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sugata Mitra on education, life, science.

Top 10 Sugata Mitra Quotes

1. Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
2. 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 It's outdated.
3. Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
4. The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.
5. My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
6. Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.
7. Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
8. In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
9. 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?
10. 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.

Sugata Mitra Quotes About Education

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. — Sugata Mitra

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra

If children have interest, then Education happens — Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Quotes About Learning

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. — Sugata Mitra

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. — Sugata Mitra

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

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. — Sugata Mitra

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do. — Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Sugata Mitra

You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere. — Sugata Mitra

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves. — 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. — Sugata Mitra

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. — Sugata Mitra

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be. — Sugata Mitra

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

Life Lessons by Sugata Mitra

1. Sugata Mitra's work shows that technology can be used to empower people to learn and grow independently.
2. His research has demonstrated that children can be self-directed learners when given the right tools and guidance.
3. His work has also highlighted the importance of collaboration and community support in helping people to reach their full potential.