Schools take an hour to teach what can take 5 minutes on students' own time
My wife and I took our son out of school eight years ago and a major reason for that was because, figuratively speaking, his school was taking an hour to teach him what he could learn for himself in five minutes at home on the internet.
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Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.