Abdul Kalam's work knowledge society

1. Welcome to VFSTRU
BSC English-I

2. The Knowledge Society
Author of the lesson: APJ
Prepared by
Dr.Shakila Bhanu

3. Objectives and Outcomes
Objectives
• To introduce students critical and expository writing
• To make students understand views of APJ
Outcomes
After this lesson student will be able to
• Recognize and understand critical and expository writing
• Understand views of APJ

4. Introduction
• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931 – 2015)
• a distinguished scientist
• 11th President of India
Dr. Abdul Kalam felt
• India has already knowledge society
• the need to rediscover the ancient Indian Culture- abundant
wealth of knowledge.
• that various invasions destroyed the competence of the
Indian society

5. what we discuss
• India is already a knowledge society
• Knowledge sources
• Why Knowledge Society?
• societal transformation
• three dimensions of knowledge society.

6. Knowledge sources
Knowledge can be acquired not only through formal
schooling
• libraries, researches, seminars, drawings, etc.
• Our artists, craftsmen, saints, hakims and
• simple housewives
• Our heritage and rituals also are expressions of
knowledge

7. Why Knowledge Society?
• A society can be declared as prosperous if it has the
ability to create and maintain the knowledge infrastructure
to enhance skills and increase productivity.
• The latest knowledge and technology include –
Information Technology, Bio-technology, Tele-medicine,
Tele-education, user-driven technology, etc.

9. Societal Transformation
• Agriculture to Industrial society in early 20th century
• In the last century Agricultural society changes to
industrial
• In the 21st century, knowledge has become the primary
production resource instead of capital and labour.

10. The Three dimensions of knowledge society
• societal transformation
• wealth generation
• third dimension is to transform India into a superpower.
Our communication network and information centers must
be protected from electronic attacks. It is a great
responsibility.