The crave for paper qualification is causing more harm than good.
Since our society has erroneously equated literacy to mere paper
qualification or fluency in English language. Everyone regardless of
their age, passion, purpose and ability wants to bag a degree from any
educational institution. The society now respects paper qualification
more than skill and competence. Only university graduates are regarded
as literates. Consequently, university graduates pose as kings and
queens because they have a paper qualification. They parade themselves
as lords of the labour market because they attended the ivory tower. And
the uninformed technician feels inferior because he has no degree. They
become so intimidated that they abandon their profitable trade for mere
paper qualification that will make them join the unemployment queue.
We
have also been brainwashed that the best path to achieve success or
wealth is to attend a university, get a degree or diploma and get a job.
Since a degree and not competence has become the yardstick for offer of
employment in these parochial societies, everybody wants to have a
certificate. Thus, most people go to college in order to acquire a
degree which will be the basis for getting a good job and having a good
pay check. Technical and vocational and entrepreneurial education has
been relegated and trampled on. The society view vocational skilled
laborers as the less privileged that were unable to pay university
tuition fees.
Parents are compounding the problem by forcing their
wards to embark on professional career in higher institutions even when
these kids are uninterested. Most parents want their children to have a
good education and a secure future. They think that a good school will
help their kids avoid financial challenges. They want their child to
make it to the top of the food chain. Most parents dread the thought of
their children toiling at menial jobs, being underemployed, earning low
wages, paying higher and higher taxes, and battling inflation all their
lives. The hope is that their kids will become doctors, lawyers, or
CEO's. No parent wants his child to become a cook, mechanic, shoe maker,
tailor, tiller, farmer, hair stylist, etc. We all want our kids to
become university graduates even when we have observed that child will
succeed more as a technical or vocational trainee or as an entrepreneur.
Examination malpractice has skyrocketed because most students in
conventional school are not meant to attend such schools.
The
problem is that none of those professions help them to be truly
financially free. Truthfully, university and other higher institution
graduates contribute the highest chunk to the pool of the unemployed.
School does not make you successful because it does not teach you
financial education. Talent and skill development, Technical and
vocational education and entrepreneurship are the main drivers of any
economy. A child that has learnt to read and right can achieve anything
in life. Such child has the ability to learn anything on his own. Thus,
the foundation of education is the primary and secondary school. It is
therefore important that every child have access to at least basic
education. Not everyone is destined to be a degree holder. If you join
the crave for paper qualification whereas you are not destined to attend
higher institution you will be doomed for life. Don't desire to be a
university graduate out of frustration from societal pressure. Follow
your passion and your heart, never follow the crowd.
A degree can
either be a stepping stone or a road block on the path to achievement.
Today we have university graduate without proficiency. Their certificate
has blocked their access to success. Instead of vigorously pursuing
their passion which is their surest path to success, they are busy
queuing in the unending line of unemployed job seekers. If education
proves to be an obstacle, those with an entrepreneurial spirit will push
it aside and go their own chosen route. Education is not acquiring
certificate; neither is it by your fluent grammar. It is your ability to
create something new and solve societal problems that makes you
educated.
Education is the acquisition of skills and knowledge
through learning and personal experience and the ability to apply such
knowledge to solve societal problems for the betterment of the society.
Thus, if you cannot solve or satisfy the needs of the populace you are
not educated. Education is not by certificate; it is having proofs. Your
proof is not your certificate; neither is it by your fluent grammar. It
is your ability to create something new and solve societal problems
that makes you educated. Change your life and your society if you are
educated. Stop showcasing your good certificate, show us a proof. If
your tailor can make you give a cloth design that make you look good, he
has solved a problem, hence he is highly educated. When that so- called
"illiterate" go under your car and fix it without consulting any book,
you smile and pay him. He had just solved a problem and therefore he is
informed. The same applies to that interior decorator, house painters,
shoemakers, refuse managers, electricians and other technical,
vocational and entrepreneur laborers.
Today, in the information
age, there are many ways to learn and develop the skills you need to
become a successful entrepreneur. Homeschooling, technical, vocational
and entrepreneur education may be some worthwhile options for many,
especially if you have the desire to learn at your own pace, or if you
have kids that are ambitious and independent thinkers. In fact, many of
the most successful people in history were successful without finishing
school.
College qualification cannot guarantee wealth or fulfillment.
Wealth is attracted by solving societal problems and meeting societal
needs. If you are a graduate and cannot contribute positively to your
society, you are a nonentity.
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