On the occasion of Teacher's Day, the non-executive chairman of Infosys adviced students to be disciplined and not bunk classes Software icon NR Narayana Murthy yesterday condemned the tendency of students in aiming at passing examinations rather than attempting to learn and acquire knowledge. Murthy was speaking at the inaugural function for first year BE/B Arch classes at BMS College of Engineering. "We have not leveraged the power of education. Our engineers have become people who learn by rote (a learning technique which focuses on memorisation), pass the examination and they are incapable of making a difference to the society," he said. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/sep/Murthy.jpg" border="5" /> Murthy blamed poor public governance for major ills faced by the country. Recalling an interacting with three new employees of Infosys, he said he asked the computer science graduates a fundamental and basic question to which they replied they had "forgotten it all" since the exams got over. u00a0 "I was stunned by their answer," he said. "Please be disciplined. Don't bunk classes. As a student, I attended every one of my classes," Murthy told the students. He said he has the "dubious distinction" of having been the only student who attended classes when there was a strike by the entire college. u00a0 "The reason was very simple. My father was a teacher and I know that if I respected my father, I have to respect every other teacher and if I have to respect a teacher, then I have to go and sit in the class," Murthy said. "I can assure you that it has served me very well," he added. u00a0 Murthy also blamed poor public governance for major ills faced by the country such as illiteracy, malnourishment, lack of sanitation facilities and dismal food and power management. u00a0 He added that even 63 years after independence, 35 crore Indians can't read and write, and the country has the largest mass of malnourished children.

On the occasion of Teacher's Day, the non-executive chairman of Infosys adviced students to be disciplined and not bunk classes

I attended all my classes: Murthy

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