The Victorians were great ...

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.
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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
 Sugata Mitra
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
 Sugata Mitra
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.
 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
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
 Sugata Mitra