PBS NewsHour

An innovator who says kids can learn anything on their own

Clip: 11/12/2015 | 8m 45s

It started with a hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra, working for a software company in Delhi, cut a gap between his firm and the slum next door, putting out an Internet-connected computer for kids in the community to use. That simple experiment has turned into a radical idea that children can teach themselves in self-organized learning environments. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

Aired: 11/12/15

Rating: NR

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