Intel Chairman during his recent visit to India and the CNBC Interview on “Indian competitiveness” talked of the importance of teachers in no uncertain terms. He recalled as to how most of us had been influenced by great teachers during our school days.
With computers or without computers, we will have good education as long as we have good teachers. With bad teachers, there is no hope of a great education with or without computers.
Coming from the Chairman of Intel, the company that pioneered PC’s with its dominant microprocessors for two decades (Intel 8086, 286, 386, 486 and Pentium), the message is loud and clear, particularly for many of our “education managers” obsessed with “meddling with education”
(Panel discussion at Delhi on December 6, 2005 with Craig Barrett & Amar Babu of Intel, Sangeeta Reddy of Apollo Hospitals, Vinay Deshpande of Encore Software, Rajendra Pawar of NIIT and me, and anchored by Govindaraj Ethiraj of CNBC TV 18 India)
