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

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Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

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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.

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Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

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

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

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Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

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Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

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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.

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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?

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Educator

Born: February 12th, 1952

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