Lessons from Legends - Inspiring and Invaluable quotes taken from the excerpts of speeches made by various guests in Great Lakes Institute of Management. In this series, presenting Mr. Sam Pitroda inspiring words from his speech at Great Lakes Institute of Management.

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LESSONSFROM LEGENDS
- Powerful quotes from visionaries
- Sam Pitroda

2. “These are invaluable quotes taken from the
speeches made by various guests at
Great Lakes Institute of Management.”
These excerpts were taken from Sam Pitroda’s talk at
Great lakes Institute of Management on Dec 15, 2007.
LESSONSFROM LEGENDS
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3. Access to knowledge which includes
literacy, library, network, portals,
reservations, quotas, broadband
network and variety of other issues
with clear understanding that - access
is the key to knowledge
development in the country.
- Access to Knowledge
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We can’t look at education in
isolation without creating
the eco system required to sustain
knowledge. We cannot create knowledge
paradise for tomorrow without looking
at technology input related to open
courseware, distance learning,
IT and all of them.
- Vital Role of Technology

5. The entire model of
education of how we learn,
what we learn,
why we learn is going to change.
- Change in Education Model
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Technology can improve
productivity, efficiency and
enhance learning.
- Purpose of Technology

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Knowledge is continuously
changing and as a result, if we
don’t train or re-train people, they
will not be productive
in the society.
- Being Updated

8. We cannot have a system where only 7 or
8% of our children can go to college. We
need to have a system where 25% of our
children can go to college. So expansion,
expansion, expansion and then excellence.
At the same time, we need to make sure
that the quality doesn’t go down.
- Expansion ensured with Quality
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Education cannot be geared just for
the industry but industry needs
educated people. So while we need
better interface between industry and
university, we also need better
interface between university and
research institutions.
- Integration of Education and Industry

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The whole world is hung up on 4 years to
get a degree, but it may take less or it may
take more. The key is to really go back and
begin to change the content, courses,
credits, provide some more flexibility. If
somebody takes three years, fine. And if
somebody takes five years, that’s also
okay. We don’t have that flexibility in our
system today.
- Education system needs Flexibility

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Today, India with a consumer base of
over a billion people has only 7 or 8
million broadband connections. Lots
of these connections are even 256
KB. We really need 100 million
broadband connections, at least 6 to
10 mbps each. That is the real
challenge in telecom world.
- View on Telecom Industry

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If you really want to be a globally
competitive player in the global
market place, it is important to
study in English but not at the cost
of forgetting local languages all
together. So I see English as one of
the languages to succeed.
- Language to Succeed

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