We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

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.

The 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.

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.

If children have interest, then Education happens

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.