Mitra Quotes & Sayings

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that? — Sugata Mitra

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. — Sugata Mitra

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves. — Rhona Mitra

India's entrepreneurship pipeline will only scale with bootstrapping. There is no other way, given the hand of cards. - Sramana Mitra — Sramana Mitra

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine. — Sugata Mitra

I crammed my exams in London and did fine. — Rhona Mitra

The truth was that upsilamba was one of Nabokovs fascinating creations, possibly a word he invented. I said I associate Upsilamba with the impossible joy of a suspended leap. Yassi, who seemed excited for no particular reason, cried out that she always thought it could be a name of a dance- you know, "C'mon, baby, do the Upsilamba with me". Manna suggested that the word upsilamba evoked the image of small silver fish leaping in and out of a moonlit lake. Nima added in parentheses, Just so you won't forget me, although you have barred me from your class: an upsilamba to you too! For Azin it was a sound, a melody. Mahashid described an image of three girls jumping rope and shouting" Upsilamba" with each leap. For Sanaz, the word was a small African boy's secret magical name. Mitra wasn't sure why the word reminded her of the paradox of a blissful sigh. And for Nassrin it was a magic code that opened the door to a secret cave filled with treasures. — Azar Nafisi

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it. — Sugata Mitra

I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it. — Rhona Mitra

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. — Sugata Mitra

With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a name and with age one learns to live without them. — Mrinalini Mitra

fan...fucking...tastic I can't do this I didn't sign up for this shit Tria thought "Yeah...Sure Agres." Tria responded rather unhappily "We can still do some snooping since Mitra seems to be absent at the moment." Tria smiled "Snooping sounds good. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. — Sugata Mitra

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship. — Sugata Mitra

Sing a song of justice, why don't you, but remember there are many ways of measuring the worth of a man. Or a woman. Not just the poet's way. Not just the scientist's way. But a bit of both, and then some. And all of us have to tread the paths that are most suited to us. — Mitra Phukan

Maitri can be translated as "love" or "loving kindness". Some Buddhist teachers prefer "loving kindness" as they find the word "love" too dangerous. But I prefer the word "love". Words sometimes get sick and we have to heal them. We have been using the word "love" to mean appetite or desire, as in "I love hamburgers". We have to use language more carefully. "Love" is a beautiful word; we have to restore its meaning. The word "maitri" has roots in the word mitra which means friend. In Buddhism, the primary meaning of love is friendship. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding. — Sugata Mitra

I dream of being there,
Where the skies lie below,
Clouds flow like the endless river,
Where all the divinity is before me, with me,
And in the shadows yet above all,
Above all who choose to hide,
I run along the stars,
Wake up the ever-glowing sky,
And sleep to the sound of the universes beating heart... — Mrinalini Mitra

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are. — Sugata Mitra

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit. — Rhona Mitra

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman. — Mitra Farahani

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money. — Mitra Farahani

Let children wander aimlessly around ideas. — Sugata Mitra

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. — Rhona Mitra

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen. — Sugata Mitra

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter. — Rhona Mitra

When you open to the world, the world opens to you. — Djahariah Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship. — Sugata Mitra

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do. — Sugata Mitra

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it? — Sugata Mitra

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be. — Sugata Mitra

Letting her go wasn't a choice because he would never let her go; she was taken away from him. — Mrinalini Mitra

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. — Sugata Mitra

If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. Without a dream you cannot have an aim and without an aim you cannot achieve and to dream you must have faith in yourself. — Koyel Mitra

You have to be content with who you are on a day-to-day basis. — Rhona Mitra

No man is perfect but God is. What do you think? — Koyel Mitra

I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels. — Rhona Mitra

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

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West. — Sugata Mitra

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes. — Rhona Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. — Sugata Mitra

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go. — Sugata Mitra

My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries. — Sugata Mitra

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists. — Sugata Mitra

I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet. — Sugata Mitra

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer. — Sugata Mitra

Ingra had already planned a trip for Agres and Mitra they had to go Area III, Supre and according to Ingra there they would find Gila's sister, Mila Opta and that was about it from him because aparently Ingra had some things to sort out before the next tournament began. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

I wanted to go out and experience the fields. — Rhona Mitra

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures. — Mitra Farahani

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. — Sugata Mitra

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web. — Sugata Mitra

I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch. — Rhona Mitra

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative. — Rhona Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. — Sugata Mitra

If you dream big, you achieve big.If you dream small, you achieve small. Dreams make the difference. — Koyel Mitra

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves. — Sugata Mitra

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. — Sugata Mitra

I was always really into the music rather than the scene. — Rhona Mitra

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. — Sugata Mitra

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer. — Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. — Sugata Mitra

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty. — Sugata Mitra

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive. — Rhona Mitra

If children have interest, then Education happens — Sugata Mitra

When a man and woman are in love,some decisions and questions are answered in silence. — Mitra June

Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. The working assumption — Sugata Mitra

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness. — Sugata Mitra

They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent! — Mrinalini Mitra

Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend.
I've never known a braver girl," he says. — Libba Bray

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. — Sugata Mitra

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

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers. — Sugata Mitra

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next. — Rhona Mitra

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong. — Sugata Mitra

You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere. — Sugata Mitra

Who knows what we'll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong. — Sugata Mitra