Sugata Mitra

Ever since Sir Ken Robinson‘s impactful speech on ‘How School Kills Creativity’ was delivered on TED a few years ago, he has opened gateways of equally great talks on the possibilities of education. Over time and again he reminds us to question the ideal future of education.

“So many kids are disengaged from education and there’s a tendency to confuse testing with learning, what drives learning is curiosity, questioning … What fires people up to learn is having their mind opened up by possibilities.” as explained by Robinson.

This year, with TED 2013 recently kick starting, fellow innovator and educator Sugata Mitra was granted the 2013 TED Prize for his priceless experiment on what he calls the child-driven education. He successfully has proven in the video above, learning is not something that should be enforced. Instead he gauges the interests of children by often leaving a solvable problem on a pc computer placed in obscure wall in a rural area, only to return to find remarkable results on the childrens’ learning capabilities.