“The first component is to reorient our teaching in schools and colleges towards Socratic questioning in classrooms to solve real-world problems around them rather than passing the examinations by rote learning,” Murthy said speaking at an Infosys prize announcement event in Bengaluru.
“Even our top institutions have become victims of this syndrome. Thanks to the tyranny of coaching classes,” he said.
The IT veteran said money is not the primary resource for success, innovation and invention.
“Many experts feel that in our country, (there is an) inability to use research to solve our immediate pressing problems around us… (this) is due to lack of inculcating curiosity at an early age, disconnect between pure or applied research, inadequate cutting edge research infrastructure in our higher educational institutions..,” Murthy said in his keynote speech.
The 14th edition of awards was attended by the trustees of the Infosys Science Foundation — Kris Gopalakrishnan, Srinath Batni, K. Dinesh, Mohandas Pai, Salil Parekh, and S D Shibulal.
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