Sugata Mitra Quotes

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

All education must be self-education.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.