anyone, does not have the answer. These should be the sorts of questions that will occupy children’s minds perpetually. The teacher needs to help each child cultivate a vision of the future. Thus, a new primary curriculum needs to teach only three skills: 1. Reading comprehension: This is perhaps the most crucial skill a child needs to acquire while growing up. 2. Information search and analysis: First articulated at the National Institute of Technology in India by professor J.R. Isaac in the early 1990s — decades ahead of its time — this skill set is vital for children searching for answers in an infinite cyberspace. 3. A rational system of belief: If children know how to search, and if they know how to read, then they must learn how to believe. Each one of us has a belief system. How soon can a child acquire one? A rational belief system will be our children’s protection against doctrine. Children who have these skills scarcely need schools as we define them today. They need a learning environment and a source of rich, big questions. Computers can give out answers, but they cannot, as of yet, make questions. Hence, the teacher’s role becomes bigger and stranger than ever before: She must ask her “learners” about things she does not know herself. Then she can stand back and watch as learning emerges." See also Open learning Didactic method Response to intervention Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Sudbury school Problem-based learning Notes and references External links The Hole in the Wall site https://web.archive.org/web/20080523112413/http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet21/mitra.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070816042917/http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/5865 Live Conversation with Professor Sugata Mitra at Wiz-IQ-dot-com WizIQ is a popular educational website equipped with state-of-art Virtual Classroom Classrooms in the cloud or castles in the air? Alternative education Computing and society Educational technology Human–computer interaction Pedagogy