"IITs victims of rote learning due to coaching classes"

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Even the top Indian institutes lag behind the best universities of the world. Here's what Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy feels might be the reason...   Infosys Prize

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00:00There is not a single Indian institution of higher learning in the top 250 of the world

00:08university global ranking.

00:11Even our IITs have become victims of this syndrome thanks to the tyranny of coaching

00:49Research in sciences and in technologies is very important for a developing country like

01:04India that aspires to join the rank of the developed world.

01:12The country has had a healthy run in scientific and technological progress in the last few

01:20years, but we still have huge challenges.

01:25There is not a single Indian institution of higher learning in the top 250 of the world

01:33university global rankings that was announced in 2022.

01:42Even the vaccines we have produced are either based on technology from advanced countries

01:50or based on research from the developed world.

01:55Many experts feel that our country's inability to use research to solve our immediate pressing

02:05problems around us is due to lack of inculcating curiosity at an early age, disconnect between

02:18pure and applied research, inadequate cutting-edge research infrastructure in our higher educational

02:29institutions, insufficient grants and inordinate delays in creating incentives for research.

02:41There are two other critical components for success in research.

02:49The first component is to reorient our teaching in schools and colleges towards Socratic

02:58questioning and relating what they learn in the classroom to the real world problems

03:08around them rather than pausing the examinations by rote learning.

03:16Even our IITs have become victims of this syndrome thanks to the tyranny of coaching

03:23classes.

03:24The second step is for our researchers to focus on solving our immediate problems.

03:34Such a mindset, in my opinion, will inevitably lead to solving bigger challenges.

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