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Education, Degree, Certifications Vs Experience

What is the value of education, degree, certifications when compared to Experience. Which is more important?

Education or degree will get you an entry into a job or profession. How you will progress in the job or profession is not decided by your degree. It is your personal learning, hard work, dedication, God’s blessings should favor you to be successful in your job or profession.

Once you sail through in your job or profession, then years passing, and you gain experience. Experience gives you salary hike, recognition, and confidence. Now there are two candidates – one with degree and other with experience. Recruiter prefers candidate with experience.

Now another scenario , three candidates – Candidate A with degree, and B with experience, and C with both degree and experience. Now recruiter will prefer candidate C with both degree and experience.

Education/degree is like 0000 (zeros). Some number(experience) has to prefix the zeros to have value 1000. Education backed by Experience is more valuable than experience or education alone.

Education for clearing UPSC/competitive exams will not help in succeeding in career. Studying will help you to pass the competitive exam and get you job, but in order to work and engage in profession, it will be different learning and skill set.

Here is the order of precedents :

Education + Experience = more valuable

Experience = valuable

Education = no value

When we compare driving a car, here is an example – You learn where is the steering, clutch, break, accelerator, horn, indicator switches, etc. Now you have education about car. But you have not driven the car in real time. You have degree – you know where and how to use steering, clutch, break, accelerator, you know their uses. But you have not taken the car out in streets/traffics/road/highway. You will experience how it is to drive the car in real time. Without knowing how to use the tools, you can not drive the car. But knowing the tools alone will not make you a driver.

Knowing the tools of car is like Education – having a degree, driving the car in real time is like gaining Experience.

Experience matters.

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We are celebrating 76th Independence day in 2023

It has been 76 years completed since we attained independence from British. There were many known and unknown freedom fighters who sacrificed their life to get freedom. Mahatma Gandhi, Baghat Singh, Subash Chandrabose, Thilagar, Bharathiar, Vaanchinathan, Thirupur Kumaran, Va.Vu.Chidambaranar, and Veera Pandiya Kattabomman to name a few. Countless unsung heroes who fought for the Freedom, we enjoy today. Let us remember and be thankful to those all freedom fighters both known and unknown.

India has progressed forward in many areas. Our GDP has grown tremendously from 76 years back. We have schools and colleges spread across the country to educate the people without discrimination. Our healthcare system has a steep leap forward. Women’s education and empowerment has reached a level which was unimaginative before 76 years,

World is undergoing Digital Renaissance and India is part of it. We progressed scientifically, we are able to launch Chandrayan-3 – an indigenously built rocket to moon.

Our death rate is reduced and birth rate increased due to medical advancements – as a result India becomes the first country in the world in terms of population as on date.

British ruled us for 350 years. Today British prime minister Rishi Sunak is from Indian origin.

What else? but Are we deserving the freedom we enjoy today? Are we worthy to have freedom?

India has progressed in many fields post independence. But it has drawbacks too.

India is a land of both Crops and Weeds. We have both good and bad.

Women’s empowerment has reached a level which could not be imagined before 76 years back, but India is not a safe country for women as on date. Gandhiji’s dream about women, who are able to walk alone in midnight is not possible till now. Gandhiji’s vision about women is still a dream, not practically possible even after 76 years of independence.

Our materialistic education has reached international standard. Foreign students are coming to Indian universities and colleges to study. Our materialistic education system promises to transform the students to become working masses or earning professionals. But where are we morally? where are we in brotherhood?

Recent Manipur riot proved that India is still under the clutches race, caste, communal forces. India is a secular state is mentioned in Preamble only, in practical there are communal riots happening here and there in our country. Caste is deep rooted in the Indian minds. India is growing negatively in race, caste and communal drives.

Grown up and earning Indian are not free from greed, jealous, lust. Still we see incidents of people loosing their hard earned money to Chit fund fraudsters for higher interest.

Brothers and sisters fight over distributing ancestral wealth, some times they may murder each other.

After 76 years of independence, we still hear political scams and bureaucratic bribery.

Women are abused by all sections of Men from all levels.

We dont respect traffic rules. No need to say about alcohol and drugs.

We are in Digital renaissance, but we are also the victim of “digital robbery”.

What else? where are we with the freedom after 76 years of independence? was it better British continue to rule India instead of we rule our-self.

India as a land, it has both crops and weeds. We plant crops and let weeds to grow. The water we irrigate is consumed by both crops and weeds. We are continuously fighting with weeds, and spending our time, money, energy, and other resources to remove weeds.

Where are we lacking? what is our mistake? what let us to be in a situation where we do not deserve freedom?

Pre-independence, our moral educational system promises wisdom, ethics, and knowledge. Respecting fellow human, brotherhood are inbuilt in our moral educational system. A boy is taught to respect woman from his childhood. So when he grown up as adult, he respects woman instinctively. His moral values are taught in his childhood education.

We miss our moral educational system. What we have now is British designed materialistic educational system, which promises job, profession and earning. No moral values and ethics.

a² + b² = (a +b)² – 2ab ….. memorizing this formula will guarantee good marks in exam which in turn will get you good college and good job. Is this formula teaching anything about respecting woman, cast, race, communal, greed, jealous, lust? Today’s education makes a man/woman to earn, but not to live, not to respect fellow human being.

How to earn is taught by modern education. How to spend is taught by moral education. If moral values are not taught during childhood, then the grown ups will misuse the freedom we got from British.

To prove we deserve freedom, we need to train, teach our children to have brotherhood, respect woman, ignore greed, jealous, lust. Educational system has to nullify the drives of race, caste, communal from childhood. If we miss the childhood to develop moral values, then we will have “grownup adults/weeds” in the society.

We can train puppies, not dogs. We can groom children, not adults. By chance, adults may be streamlined by punishment, pain and fear, not guaranteed.

Before the conscious mind start functioning in life, moral values have to be injected into subconscious mind. This is possible only during childhood.

Law, court, police, government can punish criminals. But they can not prevent crime, they can not prevent a human becoming criminal. It is the childhood moral education only can prevent a human becoming criminal.

We as humanity the whole, transformed from barbaric life to modern day civilization. This transformation happened not because of biological or genetic evolution. It is because of cultural and scientific evolution achieved through experiments, experience and conscious mind. This cultural and scientific advancements has to be carried forward from generation to generation consciously.

Today at Independence day, we need to change our focus in childhood moral education to have better citizen of India in the future, and they should deserve the freedom. A land with only crops and no weeds. Only by changing childhood educational approach we can inculcate moral values in adults.

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Enforcing Education as a social baseline – big blunder

Education sucks

Education is a serious benchmark for everybody’s survival, status, success in this materialistic world. For the last 50+ years in India or all over the world post British Colonial era – education has attained a prominent state in the society.

Without education or literacy, it is very hard to survive and lead a economically decent life in this society. Till fifty years back, people without education managed to live, earn, got married, brought up children and lived their life to the fullest. There were lot of scope for uneducated man to live on olden days. Nowadays, it is not possible to live without education.

We are living in a worst social period which is conditioned by education, and everybody is forced to educate themself.

There were times, when hunters were recognized, later farmers were recognized, later soldiers were recognized, later poets, painters, sculptures were recognized. Before independence freedom fighters were recognized, nowadays there is no scope for freedom fighters.

Everything is a niche skillset, man have it either by birth and trained it. Not everybody was a good hunter, or farmer or soldier, or poets. Each is a special skill – either trained or having by birth. Not everybody can succeed in all fields or professions.

Like that, education is a special skill set, it requires reading, comprehend, and retell/vomit what was memorized. Not all the people on the earth are good at reading, memorizing, and vomiting/retelling. Everybody can speak, but not all can be an orator. Speaking and giving a speech are different skill sets. It need to train your brain or have such brain by birth.

British, spread their western education in India to train, recruit employees for their administrative tasks. An educational system grooming students for administrative or clerical task is still practiced in post independence era. An administrative education is the benchmark or baseline for everything in India. In this context, think about the state of people who do not have skill sets to thrive in education or who can not train themselves to read, memorize, and vomit.

Today, society is enforcing everybody to read, memorize, and vomit though not everybody is good at studying. Many people may not have the brain skill sets for studying. They may have natural skill set in some other domain or fields. Society is not ready to experiment or identify the skill set of every individuals. Its only path is read, memorize, vomit. That’s it.

Assume that if everybody to is asked to run fast, Running fast is the social baseline for everything. Those who run fast will get jobs, status, recognition, etc. So every children will be given training to run fast from childhood. Those who do not or can not run fast will be dumped down. Running is a special niche or skill set, one has to train themselves or have that skill by birth. Others struggle.

In the similar way, we are – the society – the world is enforcing a specialized skill set(reading, memorizing, vomiting) on everybody globally. Those who do not have the skill set, are struggling. What a stupidity. Those who do not have the skill set to study are in pathetic situation in current era.

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Identification with Education

We have a strong deep-rooted identification with our educational system. We are driven mad by our attachment with education.

We have our ego clubbed with education.  We look education as a source of income to make a living.

Respect, pride, money, economy, ego are all embroiled with education.

My 10-year-old son is not going to school often.  He takes leave often.  He is telling that he does not like school.  Recently, he was adamant as not going to school.

I was afraid that he might be a school dropout from 5th standard.  I could not digest my son is without education – a college degree. There was a trauma, cry from me at the moment when this Dropout thought raised.  Sub-consciously, I have strong identification with education.  When it is shaken, I have bad emotions, I became weak.

I feared what my son will do in future without education. What job will he do without a degree?  What level of respect will he receive from the society? Will he not feel inferior in front of educated people?

I could not accept to my son without education.

I see education as a recognition, source of income, an entry into corporate companies, a resume for sky scrapping salary, a security from fear of unknown, a source of confidence.

 For many centuries, education was not attainable to majority of people.  Education was circling in a closed circle.  Many people lived without education for centuries.

I am a second-generation graduate.  Back to my grandfather onwards nobody was educated.  My father is the first graduate in his clan.

In the last 50 to 75 years, education spread across the country and reached its peak now.  You cannot join government job without a degree.

I have to get rid of my identification with education.  It is a delusion that education is everything; it is a belief that without education life will be futile.

I am limiting myself with my identification.

I am putting my son within a frame of identification.

The belief system over education, make me do certain actions, and prevent me from doing certain actions.

I have to see myself without educational identity.  When I try it, I feel myself light.  Once I shed my educational identification, I would be able to see my son without education.

There are limitless possibilities for a man without education.  Don’t let my son restricted by the possibilities of education alone.

There is a life beyond education. Schooling has become such a stress nowadays.

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Investment in Schools Colleges

Education has become investment. Like mutual funds, shares, real estate education is an investment. Parents investing in education for big returns.

The major attribute of education is economy, the ability to get a job, get an high paying job. Other attributes are status, recognition.

Educated brides and grooms are a ‘sellable / disposable commodity’ at ease in the matrimonial market.

People believe that studying in ‘good school and colleges’ yield more job opportunity and earning potential. Of course, it is true. Parents are ready to ‘invest’ in college admission if the college draws big paying companies for campus interviews.

Indian schools, give better job opportunity against uneducated person. Educated person has an edge over uneducated person for jobs. That its.

Other than economy, education does not make a big difference between educated and uneducated. All the crimes are done by both uneducated and educated people equally.

Lack of Entrepreneurship in Indian Education

Indian english medium schools produce massive white color, blue color ’employees’. Entrepreneurs have to give ‘decent’ job opportunities to this ‘work force’.

Entrepreneurship does not require education. It requires attitude.

Both uneducated and educated people can be found as entrepreneurs or bosses. But all the people doing white or blue color jobs are educated people only.

Without entrepreneurs, ‘educated employees’ can not survive. Indian schools and colleges produce employees.

Attitude produce entrepreneurs.

Does present day educational system teach attitude? If so, In which Indian school or college is attitude taught?

Money has a value, not attitude. Indian education has a value, not attitude.