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Education scientist Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments - driven by the reality that there are places in all countries where "good teachers won't go" -  have shown that even without supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest. His "minimally invasive education" model has interesting implications for future learning methods.

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