Voices
SUGATA
MITRA
HUFFINGTON
03.10.13
EDUCATION: TED PRIZE 2013
JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSON
We Need Schools …
Not Factories
FROM PLATO TO Aurobindo,
from Vygotsky to Montessori,
centuries of educational thinking
have vigorously debated a central
pedagogical question: How do we
spark creativity, curiosity, and
wonder in children? But those
who philosophized pre-Google
were prevented from wondering
just how the internet might influence the contemporary answer to
this age-old question. Today, we
can and must; a generation that
has not known a world without
vast global and online connectivity demands it of us.
But first, a bit of history: to keep
2013 TED
Prize winner
Sugata Mitra
explains his
“School in
the Cloud”
initiative at
this year’s
conference.