Modern Education - Producing Useful But Unhappy People?
Prof Sugata Mitra, Professor Emeritus, NIIT University Rajasthan
10-May-21 08:00

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While the Covid-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, the resulting effects have devastated the global economy and students' education for the years to come. But education was already due for a reckoning before the pandemic hit- was this just accelerating the inevitable? We speak to computer scientist and educational theorist Professor Sugata Mitra on the Breakfast Grille to discuss the short-term and long-term prospects of our global education system.
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Produced by: Sim Wie Boon
Presented by: Lyn Mak
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Tags: student, school, education, happiness,