Seek knowledge outside labs, says nic chief
True and total knowledge is available aplenty beyond the classrooms and science labs, according to National Innovation Council (NIC) Chairman R.A.Mashelkar.
Speaking to DC on the sidelines of the inauguration of the fourth edition of Jagriti Yatra, a social entrepreneurship train-trip, at IIT Mumbai on Saturday, he said, “School students should not be confined to science labs. Science teachers should take them out of their labs and expose them to real world.”
He said students are able to write down the correct answers in their science exams.
“But they often do not understand their meaning. Knowledge is not about knowing information. It means knowing, doing and being.
When you teach the student, he or she should understand the valuable information and put the idea to use, to lead life as a good human being,” he said.
Mr.Mashelkar recalled that his physics teacher Bhave took him in the tram to a soap-making industry before teaching the lesson in the class.
Earlier speaking at the inauguration, he said, “Almost 50 per cent of the achievers who won the awards from the NIC were illiterates.
A Kerala-based schoolgirl innovated a pedaling washing machine last year.
She designed it in such a way that she could pedal the washing machine while reading her lessons sitting on it. She wanted to help her cancer-afflicted mother”.
He said, “Think India as a country which has over one billion minds and not mouths.”
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