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If children know there is som...

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

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Who knows what we’ll need to ...

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 figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

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In nine months, a group of ch...

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.

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My wish is to help design the...

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. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.

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There are places on Earth, in...

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

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Knowing is NOT the most impor...

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

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Go to a job interview and tel...

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?

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The Indian education system, ...

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.

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Schools still operate as if a...

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

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There will always be places i...

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

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It's quite fashionable to say...

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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In nine months, a group of ch...

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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I'm encouraging kids to use c...

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

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Teachers are not supposed to ...

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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Experiments show that childre...

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

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Teachers say to me, 'The inte...

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.

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My wish for humanity is to in...

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

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I don't mind children cribbin...

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.

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Profound changes to how child...

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

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The best schools tend to have...

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....