Sugata Mitra Quotes

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

To teach is to learn twice.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.