KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Sugata Mitra Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Sugata Mitra

Showing 21-28 of 28 Quotes by 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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

~Sugata Mitra

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Educator

Born: February 12th, 1952

Links

Find Sugata Mitra on Amazon

Related Authors

John W. Gardner
Temple Grandin
Timothy Leary
Horace Mann
Benjamin E. Mays
Maria Montessori
Morrie Schwartz
Booker T. Washington

Popular Authors

Euripides Michael Jordan Demetri Martin Claude Monet Prince George Washington John Wayne Bell Hooks

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - James Joyce

1905 - Ayn Rand

1745 - Hannah More

1754 - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

1843 - Knute Nelson

1859 - Havelock Ellis

1864 - Margot Asquith

1874 - Ernest Shackleton

1875 - Fritz Kreisler

1882 - James Stephens

Birthdays on February 2nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Design Fear Jealousy Life Movies Patience Saint Patrick's Day