inspiring words from sam pitroda - lessons from legends
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Lessons from Legends - Inspiring and Invaluable quotes taken from the excerpts of speeches made by various guests in Great Lakes Institute of Management. In this series, presenting Mr. Sam Pitroda inspiring words from his speech at Great Lakes Institute of Management.TRANSCRIPT
Great Lakes Institute of Management Presents
LESSONS FROM LEGENDS- Powerful quotes from visionaries
- Sam Pitroda
“These are invaluable quotes taken from the speeches made by various guests at
Great Lakes Institute of Management.”
These excerpts were taken from Sam Pitroda’s talk at Great lakes Institute of Management on Dec 15, 2007.
LESSONS FROM LEGENDS
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Access to knowledge which includes literacy, library, network, portals, reservations, quotas, broadband
network and variety of other issues with clear understanding that - access
is the key to knowledge development in the country. - Access to Knowledge
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We can’t look at education inisolation without creating the eco system required to sustain knowledge. We cannot create knowledge paradise for tomorrow without looking at technology input related to open courseware, distance learning, IT and all of them.- Vital Role of Technology
The entire model of education of how we learn, what we learn, why we learn is going to change. - Change in Education Model
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Technology can improve productivity, efficiency and
enhance learning. - Purpose of Technology
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Knowledge is continuously changing and as a result, if we
don’t train or re-train people, they will not be productive
in the society. - Being Updated
We cannot have a system where only 7 or 8% of our children can go to college. We need to have a system where 25% of our children can go to college. So expansion, expansion, expansion and then excellence. At the same time, we need to make sure that the quality doesn’t go down.- Expansion ensured with Quality
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Education cannot be geared just for the industry but industry needs
educated people. So while we need better interface between industry and
university, we also need better interface between university and
research institutions.- Integration of Education and Industry
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The whole world is hung up on 4 years to get a degree, but it may take less or it may take more. The key is to really go back and begin to change the content, courses, credits, provide some more flexibility. If somebody takes three years, fine. And if somebody takes five years, that’s also okay. We don’t have that flexibility in our system today.- Education system needs Flexibility
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Today, India with a consumer base of over a billion people has only 7 or 8 million broadband connections. Lots of these connections are even 256 KB. We really need 100 million broadband connections, at least 6 to 10 mbps each. That is the real challenge in telecom world.- View on Telecom Industry
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If you really want to be a globally competitive player in the global market place, it is important to
study in English but not at the cost of forgetting local languages all
together. So I see English as one of the languages to succeed.
- Language to Succeed
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