Can Kids Teach Themselves?

What happens if you go to some poor area in India where kids don’t speak any English and stick a computer in a wall and leave it there for months?

Dr. Sugata Mitra did exactly that and found a bunch of kids who had taught themselves 250 English words (mostly mispronounced).

Also they were asking him for a faster processor and a better mouse.

Arthur C. Clark once said: “A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.”

Dr. Mitra’s experiment shows that at the very least a machine is better than no teacher at all.

(actual experiment starts after 7 minutes in the video)