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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO DISSUADE STUDENTS FROM PRSUING FIEL


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Today there’s a plethora of avenues open to students to take up and shine out. A student could be interested in engineering, medicine, sport, theatre, photography etc. but it is equally important for the student to realize his/her strengths and weaknesses and act accordingly. It is always easier to succeed when energy is channelized in the direction of your strengths and not the other way around. It thus becomes very important for the institutions to be able to tap into the strengths of individual students and motivate them in that direction so as to boost the student’s confidence as well as to carve them a niche of their own.

 

Sachin ramesh tendulkar is a great example of success exemplified. His cricketing coach noticed his dexterity with the bat at a very early age and encouraged and guided the boy who went on to become the greatest legend in the cricketing world. Sooner the talent is identified, sooner can the individual be guided into the right direction. Though it is difficult to pay such amount of attention to each student in big educational establishments, it is always possible to guide the students in helping them decide their future course of lives by identifying their weakness if not strength.

 

India is a country known for producing the maximum amount of computer engineers in the world. So what makes Indians such good software engineers? Or does it make them good engineers at all? The truth is that it does not. Our country is driven by the middle class and their aspirations to elevate their lives into a more comfortable one and in the process, so have the Indian educational institutions become. There is a decree to pursue engineering post the completion of one’s schooling as a guaranteed job post engineering would mean a comfortable and prosperous life. Where there is a need for the institutes to find out the student’s strength and promote them in that same field, which may or may not be favorable to academics, students are snubbed and told that it is only important to concentrate on basic education first, after which one can always find time and develop their skills which in reality only end up becoming vocational skills.

 

Though it is absolutely wrong for any institution to tell a student what to pursue and what not to pursue, it should be their prerogative to guide the student in a way that they do not end up in fields that they would miserably fail at because of their naivety in taking a decision. That’s where an institution should play a crucial role.

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