BHUBANESWAR: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Saturday said he was not cut out for politics as he was basically a teacher.
"Politics is not my cup of tea", Kalam told a school student when he had asked him why he quit politics when the country was facing a host of problems.
"I was basically a teacher..I was teaching and I was a professor," Kalam told the student of the Sai International School here.
During his interaction with the students, Kalam told the MBA students to try to become leaders instead of coming out from the institute as managers.
Earlier, Kalam told a function at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan here that since knowledge is the source of power for a nation in a globalised world, India needs to be knowledge driven.
"Besides, it is necessary for India to raise the annual growth rate to ten per cent for the next ten years from the present level of about eight per cent in order to become economically strong and advanced," he said.
However, only economic progress will not be able to bring development without good citizens, he said, adding, people of the country must be endowed with virtues, courage, knowledge and righteousness.
"Politics is not my cup of tea", Kalam told a school student when he had asked him why he quit politics when the country was facing a host of problems.
"I was basically a teacher..I was teaching and I was a professor," Kalam told the student of the Sai International School here.
During his interaction with the students, Kalam told the MBA students to try to become leaders instead of coming out from the institute as managers.
Earlier, Kalam told a function at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan here that since knowledge is the source of power for a nation in a globalised world, India needs to be knowledge driven.
"Besides, it is necessary for India to raise the annual growth rate to ten per cent for the next ten years from the present level of about eight per cent in order to become economically strong and advanced," he said.
However, only economic progress will not be able to bring development without good citizens, he said, adding, people of the country must be endowed with virtues, courage, knowledge and righteousness.
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