Books before Labs || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Movies and Books || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)

Transcript

00:00To a student, the library, the classroom and the books come first.

00:04So let not three idiots or some other movie of that kind delude you.

00:10And books are important because they carry knowledge.

00:13And let not this dangerous and shallow idea about practicality influence us too much.

00:21The ones who work in laboratories are very, very knowledgeable people.

00:26Even practical experiments cannot be conducted except on a solid foundation of knowledge.

00:35You cannot just walk into a lab like a novice and say, now I learn from here.

00:41That's not the way it can work.

00:42If you want to contrast the fellow in the library against the fellow in the laboratory.

00:49Remember, the fellow in the laboratory has first of all already spent a lot of time in the library.

00:55Without spending time in the library, you cannot even enter the laboratory.

01:00What will you do there?

01:01These two go hand in hand.

01:02And out of these two, to a student, the library, the classroom and the books come first.