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Nikhil Kamath Hosts Owners And Experts Of Ed Tech Companies For His Latest Podcast, Checkout Below!
Nikhil Kamath Podcast: India's Brightest Investor, Nikhil Kamath is here with the latest episode of his podcast series where he hosts founders of various companies in a panel to discuss relevant topics and the one for this episode being, Ed Tech.
After dropping out of school post class 10, Nikhil went onto become India's youngest Billionaire and is currently making use of highly consumed digital platforms to break down relevant topics for the layman, along with a panel of various achievers and experts in and around the field that he brings together, for an opinion based discussion.
In this interesting podcast, Nikhil Kamath hosted guests like Ronnie Screwvala, Chairperson & Co-Founder of UpGrad, and also renowned filmmaker Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder at Unacademy and Jay KotakCo-Head at Kotak811.
They discussed various sectors of education and how to make the process more interesting for kids and how ed tech is making waves today. From high presence in private schools in India to the idea of the gamification of education to make it more interesting and even breakdown of personal topics like Jay's love story or Ronnie's ability to not be able to take a compliment, they discussed it all.
When Nikhil asked about what's more important between the syllabus or teachers in a learning setup, Ronnie replied, "For me and for the overall working professional, it's a lot of plus, plus, plus. It's not necessarily teachers and the faculty, which is the epicenter."
He adds about what should have more weightage between the 2, saying, "No, I think the learning experience and the whole process of learning because it's online, is the most important part of it, and connecting. Otherwise, just a lecture today is not gonna move the needle from all points of it."
He added, "And if you have just a ted talk, that's not how you gonna learn for the next level of what you want to basically do, I think that's the pivotal part. Right now, to me, what I think is going to revolutionize learning is peer-to-peer learning. So while we are talking about teachers and faculty."
"I can see that trend in the next 5 years, the power of everything that's going to go to the next level and maybe not in school because you do need that basic element, you can't suddenly have peer to peer, is peer to peer learning," he shared.
Nikhil also asked Jay if he felt he learnt more at Harvard from his teachers or peers, to which Jay replied revealing, "Harvard Business School is a very interesting kind of education model because it is a combination of teacher to student and peer to peer, because every class is almost like a conductor to an orchestra where the conductor is only kind of (which is the professor)."
He went on to add, "He gives you a case, everybody has to read it before the class, you assume everybody has read it (it's usually a very interesting case on a topic on what the class is and they have millions of cases) then the professor has a roadmap of what he/she wants to get out of that discussion, but he pushes different members of the class."
"And because it is a very diverse class, like for an example on a case where (you are talking about Disney, the media company) there was a girl, who was a child actress, who became a very successful child actress and then a media executive and then came to Harvard Business School and had an interesting perspective to share with the rest of the class and likewise on other topics and that for me, I learnt a lot more."
Also, discussing whether the current benchmarks in schooling are well placed to cope with the changes taking place or not, Nikhil shared his view saying, "Ill give you my experience of education- went to a terrible school, I hated my school, hated my teachers, grew up being scared of things I should not have been scared of."
Further, he said, "I was probably scared of my class teacher, this teacher, that teacher. Stopped going to school.. beyond the 10th, I didn't go, I started working and stuff like that. But what I remember of school is that it taught me to be a conformist, in a manner where their idea of what I should be, their idea of what I should learn, their idea of what is required to get the outcome we just spoke about- big job, success, entrepreneurship whatever, that was met."
He finished off saying, "But the idea seems to be changing very quickly in the world, I don't think you become successful, 10 years from now by being conformist anymore."
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You can catch India's youngest billionaire, host his guests in an interesting and highly insightful discussion right from the successful experts themselves.
