Einstein's quote about education interfering with learning introduces two stories contrasting the author's experiences with education and learning. In college, the author focused on exams and memorization rather than understanding, but learned the most from a hands-on final project. In their first job, intensive on-the-job training taught them more practical engineering and business skills than their entire college degree. The author argues that true learning comes from experience, not just education, and such hands-on learning experiences should be integrated into higher education.

1. The only thing that interferes with my
learning is my education.
-Albert Einstein

2. Today people think of getting into
college for education

3. And not for learning

4. Let me give you 2 examples of
learning and education

5. Story 1 : My College

6. Where I did my engineering in
Electronics and Communications
course

9. Busted, right ?

10. But I memorized everything for the
exam

11. Focusing for the exams, barely I
learned anything

12. I didn’t understand Electronics nor
Communications

13. Did final year project on ‘Hacking EM
Waves and reproducing the same’

14. Project was a huge success resulted
in Front page of National Daily
newspaper….

16. I learned Fourier transform,
electronic circuit and more from
this 3 month project !

17. I learned it from Internet!

18. Story 2 : Where I started my first job

19. DUBAI CITY

20. I started my work in Industrial
Automation

21. 3 months of intensive training

22. I learned more than what was
taught during my 4 years of
engineering career

23. In terms of technical as well as in
decision making!

24. i.e, I learned Engineering as well as
MBA 

25. I was executing one of the largest
BMS project in the Middle East with
the things I learned during my first 3
months !

26. Working for an 1 year and more…

27. Built my confidence so high that…

28. I wanted to start a company!

29. Started company in Software
Industry!

31. had 3 viral products…

32. Tintumon – more than 15,000
registered users and sprang up a
tintumon fever for some months!

33. Indian Rupee Font – More than 20
million downloads

34. Fedena – Powering 40,000 Schools
and 20 million users!

35. What if you get such a learning
experience during your course of
higher education ?

36. Possibilities are immense

37. Today the market leaders like Apple,
Microsoft, Oracle etc …

38. have CEO’s dropped out from
colleges !

39. Cofounder of Paypal and Investor of
Facebook – Peter Thiel….

40. will pay you to drop out of college!
and Pursue Entrepreneurship

41. Learning makes a big difference …

42. to you and hence to the world !

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44. Thank You
Abdulla Hisham
hisham@foradian.com
+91 8884557786
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