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Sugata Mitra's talk on education, edtech and empire (at the 2013 TED prize) - a critique of the pedagogy from the view of the Indian slums
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Mitra’s radicalism keeps our opposition focused on the fate of those privileged children: “The students must be identical to each other…They must be so identical that you could pick one up from New Zealand and ship them to Canada and he would be instantly functional.” This way of telling the story not only conceals the greater injustice perpetrated beyond the ranks of the privileged, but it also empties the modern principle of identity – of equality – of all its political radicalism. Is there not an identity that deserves to be recognised? Every voice raised against imperial exclusion is a voice that claims a more fundamental equality – an equality that challenges empire.
But the most questionable remark that Mitra makes about empire is the one he makes next:
“The empire is gone.”