Former Indian cricket team captain and current Indian national team head coach Rahul Dravid respectfully declines the honorary doctorate awarded to him by Bangalore University five years ago, that is in 2017... and he also addresses the ceremony and makes a wonderful speech. ..
"My wife is a doctor...she has spent countless...sleepless nights and days to get her medical degree...it was with such long dedication that she got her precious medical degree..."
"And my mother is an art professor...she has been patiently waiting for fifty years to get her final degree...
I worked hard to play cricket...I made it to the top in that sport...that's true...but I wasn't very good academically...so how can I accept this mighty honorary doctorate...?"
“I would much prefer to get a PhD by doing some sort of academic research in sports rather than just getting an honorary degree...
In 1952, the Israeli government asked Albert Einstein to take over as Prime Minister... Einstein politely declined and said...
"I am someone who knows a little about physics... how can I accept such a thing when I know nothing about governance and administration...!!!"
Also, Grigori Perelman, a Russian world-renowned mathematician, refuses to receive a large amount of money, equivalent to the field medals and the Nobel Prize in mathematics in 2006... He said... "My childhood passed away when our family was at the peak of poverty... I had to manage her money as her accountant to save the income... Maybe that's why I developed a little talent for maths from a young age... It's because I'm no longer in the poverty phase we spent in my life, so much money I What will you do with it?
"Look... When we see the humility of these people, we even feel like bowing down to them in respect... Being humble in front of the society means that one's lack of dignity never happens, the humility in a person portrays a bigger image than his own life. Human beings on earth remind us again and again..."
"The sky is the limit for humility and it means that there is no limit to humility for anyone at any level..."
This is not the first time that Rahul Dravid has refused an honorary degree... Once he had also refused a doctorate from Gulbarga University in this manner...
Rahul Dravid retired from international cricket in 2012 after representing the game of cricket for 16 years and he is currently working as the head coach of the Indian national team...