BANGALORE: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Saturday said that the students should be encouraged to cultivate an aptitude for entrepreneurship right from the beginning of schooling and at the University level.
"We must teach our students to take calculated risks for the sake of larger gain, but within the ethos of good business", Kalam said in his address to the 43rd annual convocation of Bangalore University.
"They should also cultivate a disposition to do things right. This capacity will enable them to take up challenging tasks later".
He said a good educational system is the need of the hour to ensure that the students grow up to contribute towards the economic growth of a nation. Research, technology and performance in agriculture, manufacture and services sectors lead to economic growth and prosperity of the nation, he added.
"Can we sow the seeds of capacity building among the students? There will be continuous innovation during the learning process. To realise this, special capacities are required to be built in education system for nurturing the students".
The capacities which are required to be built are research and enquiry, creativity and innovation, use of high technology, entrepreneurial and moral leadership, he said.
According to him, as India had entered a trillion dollar economy and was continuing to be in the ascending economic trajectory, there were also concerns about rising unemployment and illiteracy.
"It is not unemployment, a major problem; it is the question of unemployability a bigger crisis".
"We must teach our students to take calculated risks for the sake of larger gain, but within the ethos of good business", Kalam said in his address to the 43rd annual convocation of Bangalore University.
"They should also cultivate a disposition to do things right. This capacity will enable them to take up challenging tasks later".
He said a good educational system is the need of the hour to ensure that the students grow up to contribute towards the economic growth of a nation. Research, technology and performance in agriculture, manufacture and services sectors lead to economic growth and prosperity of the nation, he added.
"Can we sow the seeds of capacity building among the students? There will be continuous innovation during the learning process. To realise this, special capacities are required to be built in education system for nurturing the students".
The capacities which are required to be built are research and enquiry, creativity and innovation, use of high technology, entrepreneurial and moral leadership, he said.
According to him, as India had entered a trillion dollar economy and was continuing to be in the ascending economic trajectory, there were also concerns about rising unemployment and illiteracy.
"It is not unemployment, a major problem; it is the question of unemployability a bigger crisis".
