It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Sugata MitraRead
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Education should empower children to explore and learn without fear, celebrating their natural curiosity.
This quote by Sugata Mitra emphasizes the importance of creating an educational environment that prioritizes the innate curiosity of children over fear-based learning. It advocates for a pedagogy that inspires wonder and encourages children to actively seek out information and understanding, promoting a more engaging and effective learning process.
Themes
EducationCuriosityLearningChildrenPedagogy
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a teacher's seminar to highlight innovative teaching methods.
More from Sugata Mitra
All quotes βThe Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.
Sugata MitraRead
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Sugata MitraRead
If children have interest, then Education happens
Sugata MitraRead
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 MitraRead
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Sugata MitraRead
Similar quotes
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
Barack ObamaRead
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo CasalsRead
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
Eddie Van HalenRead
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
Orson Scott CardRead
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
Jacqueline WoodsonRead
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
Geoffrey CanadaRead