Full Video: Movies and Books || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)
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00:00To a student, the library, the classroom and the books come first.
00:04So let not Three Idiots or some other movie of that kind delude you.
00:10And books are important because they carry knowledge.
00:13And let not this dangerous and shallow idea about practicality influence us too much.
00:21The ones who work in laboratories are very very knowledgeable people.
00:27Even practical experiments cannot be conducted except on a solid foundation of knowledge.
00:35You cannot just walk into a lab like a novice and say, now I learn from here.
00:41That's not the way it can work.
00:42If you want to contrast the fellow in the library against the fellow in the laboratory,
00:49remember the fellow in the laboratory has first of all already spent a lot of time in
00:55Without spending time in the library, you cannot even enter the laboratory.
01:00What will you do there?
01:01These two go hand in hand and out of these two, to a student, the library, the classroom
01:07and the books come first.