A biography for Sugata Mitrahasn’t been written yet.
“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?”
“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.”
“Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.”
“Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.”
“Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.”
“Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.”
“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.”
“You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.”