Google can't replace Guru: Vice Prez Naidu

Bhubaneswar, November 12: “Google can't replace Guru” says Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu while addressing the 13th Annual Convocation of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University on Saturday. Accessing, adopting, adapting and assimilation of new ideas have been India’s strength.

 

The Vice President said that education occurs in the classrooms, the sports fields, at home, through internet and the media and multiple daily interactions with people around us. He further said that all formal, non-formal and informal channels contribute to making us educated. Learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge is vital in today’s knowledge economy, he added.

The Vice President said that upgrading our competence, updating our knowledge and adapting to a rapidly changing work environment is the need of the hour. He advised the students to think outside the box and collect as well as connect facts. He further said that you must acquire and utilize vast resources that are now more readily available than before: information and knowledge and you must strive to be the best in whatever field you choose, he added.

 

I congratulate each one of the students and the faculty members as well as their parents Convocation is always a special day for students, parents and the faculty members.

The vice President gave the message of

“Satyam Vada, Dharmam Chara,

Swaadhyayaanna Pramadah”

“Speak the truth, practice virtue, don’t give up learning”

Vice President paid felicitations to Dr. Samanta who has set up this excellent centre of learning. He said “My sincerest congratulations to the faculty members for their tireless commitment to the noblest of causes. My affectionate greetings and good wishes to all my young friends who are graduating today and to many more who are studying in this University.”