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Have you ever sat down to really ask why people go to school? Have you ever tried studying the lives of genuinely successful individuals and then tried to relate your findings with their educational background?
Why is that majority of the world’s wealthiest and most successful individuals never completed formal education and some never went at all? Why do most people and I mean most, believe you have to go to school to amount to anything in life?
This article is aimed at providing an answer to some of these rather important questions.
The school system, as most people believe, prepares one for the real life. We have kindergarten school where we are taught how to read and write, taught nursery rhymes and at times how to pray.
We then graduate to Primary school or Grade school where the training on reading and writing continues and we are then introduced to subjects like Math, English language, Elementary Science, Fine Art, Current Affairs, Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Aptitude, etc.
From there we move on to High school or Secondary school where we are taken to a higher level of Math, English, Integrated Science, Social Studies, Fine Art with additions like Technical Drawing, Agricultural Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, English Literature, History, Commerce, Economics, etc.
In some schools, there is a Guidance & Counselling Unit that tries to aid students with making a choice with their future course of study.
Thereafter we move on to College or University where, depending on our course of study, we are introduced to advanced levels of the subjects studied at High School. From my little analysis, we see that in the school system we are taught so many different things that we may not need for our future careers.
We begin to specialize as we move to higher levels of education. Our interests appear to have become clearer because we take a liking for certain subjects and others we just cannot stand.
From my experience, even at Primary School, it starts to become clearer subjects we take a liking to whether Mathematics, English, Fine Art, Elementary Science, and at High School level we are clear on what path we are headed.
Now if this is the case, then one problem with the school system is that pupils are taught so many irrelevant courses and this could also lead to confusion as to the most suitable career path to take.
The second and more significant problem is that students who are unfortunate not to have what is considered good grades are taunted, sneered at and called all sorts of names and often times you hear teachers make comments like “you will not amount to anything in life, you failure”.
In essence, the school system does not tolerate mistakes or failures. Teachers drive that fear into students and make them believe the only way you can move forward in life is by not ever making mistakes, not even one.
Now this unfortunate scenario, which is commonplace in many schools, can do a lot of damage to the individual. If s/he refuses to challenge such damaging comments in their psyche, then s/he will believe there is nothing s/he can do about it.
But experience has shown that we can control the kind of thoughts that get into our minds, positive or negative.
The third problem with formal education is that it does not prepare one adequately for the numerous challenges of life especially financial, which has been found to be the biggest cause of crises in relationships, especially marriages.
This third problem takes its root from the second aforementioned one where failure is not tolerated in formal education.
The impression it creates in the minds of students is that a failure is finished as far as life is concerned.
What this does is make people live fake lives trying to impress their spouses and when they have financial problems, their formally-educated spouse who have the failure and finished mind-set is bound to react in the way they know best – the way they were taught at school by their teachers.
Another implication of the failure and finished mind-set obtained at formal school explains why people are so scared to leave paid employment and try something on their own - they are simply ignorant of the fact that failure is a process and not an event or an end in itself; that one can rise from failure to become a success and also fall from success to failure if not properly managed.
They therefore are not willing to take risks since nobody taught them how to do so.
This resultant lack of creativity of most graduates explains why entrepreneurs like Soichiro Honda founder of Honda Motors refused to allow graduates work at his firm for many years.
He saw a stereotyped way of thinking amongst graduates that was traceable to their training at school and since he was of the school of thought that encouraged creativity amongst employees, he was unwilling to allow them into his firm.
There ought to be a radical review of the school system to allow for entrepreneurial skills, financial skills and other personal development skills to be taught to students to make them see opportunities where they can become more independent as self employed business people and less dependent on paid employment.
This would go a long way to reduce the many problems associated with unemployment and how people view their innate abilities to achieve in life.
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