A Quote by Sugata Mitra

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Sugata Mitra

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Sugata Mitra
Indian - Educator
Born: February 12, 1952

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

Albion Fellows Bacon

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

P. J. O'Rourke

Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.

Geoff Dyer

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Jesse Jackson

One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.

Katherine Boo

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Ghostface Killah

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

Jake LaMotta

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

Phil Zimmermann

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

Vetrimaaran

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.