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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
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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?