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Education
in India has always faced a lot of challenges with the rapid changes undergoing
in higher education. The students are confronted with spate of challenges in
choosing the appropriate career due to the ignorance of inherent capabilities
and available career options. Growing unemployment of the educated,
deterioration in academic standards, indiscipline, are the serious malaises of
our education system today and these show that the system needs revision and
cleansing. We witness degree holders in lakhs at present and their future seems
to be bleak just because of their wrong choice and ignorance about various
opportunities. We find Graduates and post graduates working in different fields
than on the area of studies. Why?
In
Indian system the parents and the students are becoming serious about the
career choice only after the results are out for the plus 2 examinations. As a custom
we are still determining the career just based on the marks that we have
achieved rather than on inherent capabilities. In an era of technology and
floating of manifold information we should not get stuck at traditional
approach or careers. This is an era for winners and anybody can be a winner
provided things are chosen right. Despite being informed parents, students and
even teachers are not ready to take a risk or ready to use the scientific tools
which subsequently destroying not only the future of the student but the
country at large. The suicide attempts among the students and degree holders
are shooting up due to wrong choices which are subsequently leading to academic
pressure and unsuccessful career. The nation is losing an opportunity to get
right talents in Medicine, Engineering, Arts, Fashion designing, Nation
building, entertainment and what not.
The
winners always had one thing in common that they specialized in their talents.
They always stood apart from the crowd and became winners. They always got applauded
but never stood in the crowd to applaud others.
Today
each parent wants their child to be a winner, the student wants and why not the
schools too. However, we are still on the traditional approach without using
the scientific tools and not focusing on inherent talents or aptitude. The
parents and students are still waiting for the plus 2 results to determine
their career. The moment the results are out they start running pillar to post
to choose the career. They land up to meet with various people and finally land
up in choosing a career which is chosen by someone who is elder in their
family/relation or land up in a crowd psychology of following the peer groups
without realising the uniqueness in him/her. Finally they land up with the crowd only to
look up at the successful people who chose their career based on their
interest, intelligence and aptitude.
As
a career guide I always faced a problem of children rushing to my office or
home for choosing the career after the results are declared. You will land up
in a less time and you never be able to give a right guidance as the time is
running short for the further processing of admissions. Hence finally I tell
them to choose the career what they have decided or been looking forward for
and finally I land up in just getting the admissions done. I always suggest the
parents, teachers and students in my classes that the right time to undergo the
decision making process is class 9th as you have got enough time to
plan, explore and finalize based on your inherent capabilities. However it is
better late than never so I suggest class 12th students also to
undergo this process before choosing the career. It is better to invest a
little sum of money for scientific analysis on self before investing a lot of money on
your career education and regretting on it later. Ultimately you have
to win field not a matter. It is better to be a successful Hair designer than
being an unsuccessful Doctor.
Please
understand every job is not meant for all. Every individual is unique. If you
do not understand the uniqueness of the individual and guide them to a career
of your choice you are rather killing them rather than grooming. Just imagine
your child is too good at singing but you are training him for skating with a
handicapped leg. What can be the future of your child? This is called Academic
pressure and further leading to suicides. Whereas the same child would have
never felt an academic pressure while learning music but would have worked day
and night to reach on the top of the world. As Albert Einstein rightly said “Everybody
is a genius but if you judge the fish with its capability to climb a tree it
will remain stupid in its entire life”.
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