Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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Let's imagine a world very different from our own.

It's a world where children can teach themselves.

It's a world where charismatic teachers can be beamed to other parts of the planet.

It's a world where knowledge is available online for it to be devoured at need. It's not a world governed by lead tables and the national curricula. Well, according to Sugata Mitra, that world is already here, if we only want to embrace it. His 1999 pioneering hole-in-the-wall experiment

gave children in India access to the computer,

demonstrating that they can teach themselves

and inspiring the novel that became the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.

Recently, he's the winner of the $1 million TED Prize.

He's going to tell us, amongst other things, on what he's going to spend that money,

as he gives a talk entitled, Teaching the Teachers, the Future of Education.

Sagaata Mitra is a good example of what we now call the Glocal.

He's an academic across the river in Newcastle,

put some of his ideas in practice here in Gateshead,

but he's also got a global imagination.

Sugata Mitra. Thank you very much.

I want to make a little picture for you, which we can then discuss.

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