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Politicians are scared of fixing education, says Professor Sugata Mitra. When things go wrong, they think it can be fixed by doing things like "in the good old days", rote-learning dates and grammar.
"It's like trying to solve the traffic problem in London, there's too many cars. So the government says, 'OK, we'll bring back horses'," he says.
Mitra, a professor at Newcastle University, has a radical idea to drag education into the 21st century, both in the Western world and developing world. Governments should give children an iPad.
"I can fix the examination system in one sentence. You should be allowed to bring in an iPad," he said.
"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?
"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.
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