Came across a good article on education scenario in India, now in Business World.
Some excerpts from the above article:
The numeric is only an eligibility quotient for the job; for doing one of those jobs. But it does not indicate preparedness for life!
Examples abound: a) High scores to enter Wharton but zero EQ to know you do not drive after a drink, or even hit and run away; b) High CAT scores, but low on EQ to know that insider trading is just sophisticated thievery; c) High scores to pass the IPS and become a top-notch police officer, but zero EQ when he chooses to molest a child; d) High scores to enter a top- notch MNC, but no EI to understand that reclassifying your products to get a lower slab of excise is cheating; that paying excise is not a penalty but a means to fund the government's efforts in public administration!
Examples abound: a) High scores to enter Wharton but zero EQ to know you do not drive after a drink, or even hit and run away; b) High CAT scores, but low on EQ to know that insider trading is just sophisticated thievery; c) High scores to pass the IPS and become a top-notch police officer, but zero EQ when he chooses to molest a child; d) High scores to enter a top- notch MNC, but no EI to understand that reclassifying your products to get a lower slab of excise is cheating; that paying excise is not a penalty but a means to fund the government's efforts in public administration!
What said about engineers is, in fact, a 'comfort behind the machine' syndrome — a function of either shyness or fear of admitting 'I did not understand'. Those who are comfortable dealing with people and new territories are the best of the crop from the premier institutes where placement is as much a function of background as education qualifications!
Suffice it to say, your CAT, or GMAT or PGDM is not an index of your 'education'! It is a score for passing. Will it prevent rapes, frauds and neglectful governance? No. It simply means that you scored X and you are now a master in administrating businesses. You have been fitted with a software, without an operating system. It is not 'education'.
We are entering the knowledge era and in this era, knowledge of managing money and machines and products will be less important. This era will demand not academic prowess but thinking prowess. This era will demand a values quotient from its participants — skills in giving, sharing, enabling, respecting, taking responsibility, inclusiveness — none of which can be converted into an index! Then the educator will return and the academic will be laid to rest.
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