Sugata Mitra Quotes

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, "Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is." It didn't really get challenged that much.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I only ask for information.