New Delhi, India

Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy said that parents can create an environment of discipline for children at home to make them study.

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While responding to a question of how students should focus on their studies in the social media era on September 9 (Monday), Murthy said that the parents cannot watch movies themselves and ask children simultaneously to study.

Murthy said that he and his wife Sudha Murthy used to spend more than three and a half hours every day reading along with their children Akshata and Rohan Murty when they were in school.

Laying out the timetable of the family, Murthy said that the family focused on reading and studying from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm local time and television remained banned. 

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The family then used to have dinner and again study together from 9 pm to 11 pm local time to create a culture of discipline.

“My wife's logic was, if I am watching TV, I cannot tell my children to study. So she said, I will sacrifice my TV time, and I will also study,” Murthy said.

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Murthy said that he was often away from home and his wife chose to forego TV and study along with the children to set a strong example. 

“But that's not as important as creating an environment of discipline in learning. That leadership by example is the responsibility of the parents,” said Murthy.

“If the parents are going and seeing movies and then telling ‘children, no, no, you study’ (that won’t work),” he added.

Murthy calls coaching classes wrong way to help children

Murthy said he does not believe that coaching classes are an effective way to help children.

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“Coaching classes are the wrong way to help children pass examinations, I don’t believe in coaching classes. Most people who go to coaching classes, they don't listen to their teachers carefully in the class and poor parents, they are not as competent to help them and therefore they see some value (in coaching classes)," Murthy said.

“The importance of education is, first, to observe. Second, to analyse why this difference is coming out. Third is to offer a hypothesis. And finally, that hypothesis is observed by many people… and then verified if that thing is fine," he added.

(With inputs from agencies)