To be educated or not?

Whenever some academicians meet up, they talk about the deteriorating quality of education, lack of interests from student’s side and the difficulty in managing the new generation media.

Whereas, whenever some industrialists meet up, they talk about the lack of “practical” knowledge from the fresh graduates, improper training and lack of soft skills. I don’t think , there is one industrialist who has not used this dialogue , “all the theory which you learnt from text is waste.. We need to be practical..this is industry!”

So, what exactly is education?...A difficult question !

Is success and educational qualification connected?...A very difficult question !!

On one side, there are lots of highly successful people who have NOT attained higher qualification and in some cases are even school drop outs. And on the other side, we see that higher qualifications leading to higher positions in life and those without necessary education still leading a mediocre life.

Which is good? Which is right? Should we obtain a higher education or should we do without ? 

My logic for arriving at an answer to this is :- Not all people who are highly successful are  school dropouts … and not all unsuccessful people are qualified!

So, the only generalization that can be made is this :-

Majority of qualified people are successful  

Majority of the unqualified people are unsuccessful

All the remaining are just exceptions!!! 

(At least this is what the statistics says...) 

Even a person without a higher educational degree can be "educated" and   even a person with the highest educational degree can be "uneducated" ! 

Infact, according to me all of us are "ignorant" and "uneducated" at all times... no one can be fully educated ... because , if we know about 100 things .. we may yet not know 10000 things! 

But unfortunately, most of us don't realise this and think that we "know" everything and we are "educated" !! 

Qualifications apart , Education in the real sense makes you empowered to face any situation in life. Education is a product of learning and experience. Education is rather a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. Everyone of us "learns" and gets "education" throughout our life  without our knowledge. And any  small bit of education can help us at some point of time! However, a dedicated effort for the attainment of a qualification or certification in a particular body of knowledge will surely help in a better way. 

As a closing note,  The more I learn, the more I come to know that I am ignorant! But I enjoy the pleasure of knowing that I am ignorant, because that gives me more reasons to learn.. 

Keep on learning and Keep on educating yourself for greater success !

CeeVee 

P.S: Success here means "The attainment of popularity or profit"