When You Have Interest, You Have Education

This TedTalk is excellent. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we as a society think about teaching. Click on the video below to listen to 17 minutes of fascinating, moving and funny stuff.

But first a quote from the talk:

"Education is a self organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenonmenon..."

After 16 years of unschooling Justin, I have experienced firsthand the above quote as absolutely true. :) Enjoy!