N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There are so many things which you do not have to consider if you are developing and studying a theory in a classroom. It is useful to deal with theories in developing youthful minds, for later they will deal with facts and profit by what they have learned of other men's thoughts, but it is quite different to be faced with actual situations that have to be met in one way or another in a given period of time.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.