Sugata Mitra Quotes

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

You always need to be curious and study.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.