Occupation: Professor Birth: February 12, 1952
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 aft….
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core..
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 ….
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon..
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 ….
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing id….
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer..
I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations..
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..
If children have interest, then Education happens.
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?.
A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be..
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 fig….
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning..
The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well..
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..
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing..
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together….
Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers..
Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do..
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 anym….