Professor Sugata Mitra wants anarchy. Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, is working hard to dismantle what he sees as the strongest and most old-fashioned legacies of British rule in his native India; the education system. An education system tailor-made for empire building. Factories that rely on rote learning and exams to produce the homogenous mass of human computers needed for the empire's crowning achievement: the bureaucratic machine. A system that has failed to adapt to new technologies, still producing workers meeting the specifications of a bygone era for a future whose required skills are increasingly uncertain. This year, Professor Sugata Mitra received the Ted Prize and $1 million in funding to continue his efforts. Professor Sugata Mitra is a proponent of minimally invasive education, a system that emphasizes self-organized learning by students with access to the Internet and teachers. acting above all as catalysts for this learning. In his many lectures, Professor Sugata Mitra makes two observations: • Good schools and good teachers are lacking precisely in the areas where they are most needed. • Educational innovations are usually tested thoroughly. in the wrong place; well-funded schools with already high test scores, meaning any improvement will be minimal and therefore equally insignificant. In 1999, while working as a computer science professor in New Delhi, Professor Sugata Mitra carried out an experiment to address these observations. He installed a PC with Internet access in a wall of a local slum. Without any explanation, he let the local kids, none of whom had ever used a computer before or spoke English, investigate his strange... middle of paper ... results are unreliable. However, the documented experiences are inspiring. One person inspired by Professor Mitra's work is Vikas Swarup, author of the novel Q&A, a book adapted into the Oscar-winning film. Slumdog Millionair. Professor Sugata Mitra is not arguing that current school systems are broken, just that they are outdated. Training specific faculties and continually reviewing a series of memorized facts tends to result in a very specific set of skills. A skill set is becoming more and more obsolete. An industry producing cookie-cutter workers while letting go of large numbers of otherwise perfectly competent individuals. The shape that our educational systems impose on students no longer corresponds to the shape of their world. As Professor Mitra says: “In the networked age, we need schools, not structured like factories, but like clouds..”