Bengaluru: Bharat Ratna awardee Prof CNR Rao said online tuitions and learning through internet, sans teachers, could prove disastrous for school children.
“I remember my teachers and the role they played during my formative years. You cannot learn everything through internet. School children in the United States are not doing very well because they are turning to online education,” he told a group of school children on the sidelines of an event organized to felicitate two outstanding science teachers on his 83rd birthday at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), on Thursday.
Prof Rao reminisced about his stirring first interaction as a student with the late Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman and how he had the privilege of communicating with him later on as a young researcher at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
The outstanding science teachers felicitated were Purandaranarayana Bhat of Vidyabodhini High School, Dakshina Kannada, and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, Tagore Public School, Allahabad.
