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A School In The Cloud

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June 22, 2014

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A School In The Cloud

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes –

A School In The Cloud

Five years ago, Shahrukh Khan, an Indian schoolboy struck up an unlikely friendship with a retired teacher in London — and with her help he is now studying to be a doctor. Even though they live thousands of miles apart and have never met, they can’t imagine life without each other. Khan is just one of many children who’ve benefitted from the work of academic Sugata Mitra. Mitra gave children in a Delhi slum free access to a computer and let them use it however they wished. He called the experiment the “Hole in the Wall.” Now he’s moving onto the next phase of his dream — a project called the “School in the Cloud.” { read more }

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