Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy advocates ‘train the teacher’ colleges by retired STEM teachers across India

Bengaluru BYLINE ONLY FOR ONLINE Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy said that our schools must teach independent, critical and analytical thinking to students.

In order to accelerate this process, he suggested inviting 10,000 accomplished retired STEM teachers from the developed world and India to run 2,500 ‘Train the Teacher’ colleges across States and Union Territories. Delivering a lecture on ‘Laying a strong foundation for the prosperity of India’ at the announcement of the Infosys Prize on November 12, Mr.

Murthy said that Socratic questioning, and the habit of relating theory to the real world, is the key. “I am glad the National Education Policy has started this journey,” he said.