September 22, 2010

The Child-driven Education


http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
Take some minutes to watch this INSPIRING VIDEO.



Quotations from the video to think about:
  • "Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do."
  • "A teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be."
  • "If children have interest then education happens."
  • "There was photographic recall inside the children and I suspect it's because they were discussing with each other."
  • "Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenom."
(a self-organizing system is one where the system structure appears without explicit intervention from outside the system)

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