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Education v/s Skill


Education, the much famous and discussed and important topic on Earth. It is the only source to make future bright. The value of Education is more than what we have actually learned. Education is often associated and measured in what is the level of education you have studied. i.e in terms of which degree have you possess. You are valued based upon your degree and not on your skills. If you have good percentage/percentile, you are genius. It doesn't matter whether you have learned something in real sense or you have just mugged up. What matters in education system is percentiles and grades.



Examination is like an unwanted villain to majority of students just because they have to forcefully remember and deliver in 3 hours, what they were taught for whole year. The education system looks strange sometimes. There would be students who would feel it difficult, while some may feel it easy. It is often misunderstood that students with more percentile are smart and intelligent than students with less percentiles. Judging someone with marks and grades is a biased thinking. Even jobs are offered on the same rule.



On the other hand, there is something called Skills, which many of the students and candidates with less percentiles and grades have. Skill is basically an art or talent of doing something in a better way rather than what is learned. Everyone is skilled in some or the other task but now-a-days parents only emphasize on studying and getting marks. The real talent and skill of a child will never come out untill his guardians or teachers identify. But everyone is busy in the race of marks and grades.



No matter whatever the criteria is, the ultimate performer in a long term is the one who have required skills and the one who were busy getting marks and ranks would fail there. We have seen ranker holder without job and a pass-class student being a millionaire in by focusing on their skill areas. That is the best example of skills. I is important to focus on your core-competency rather than following the trend and mass.



We have many people in the world who were not top ranker holders in academics but did wonders in the what they decided to do. They were successful just because they had a different way to do things which highly ranked students could not do.

Some of the names are :


1. PM Narendra Modi (Politician)
A humble chai(tea)-vendor is today the Prime Minister of India. Does success need any other definition? Did education win over skills ?



2. Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer)
The God of Cricket only studied up to class 10. His prodigious skills on the field however, were apparent much before that.


3. Benjamin Franklin (Statesman, scientist and public leader)
This famous American failed arithmetic as a boy. His father took Franklin out of school at age 10 and put him to work cutting wicks and melting tallow in the family’s candle and soap shop. Franklin grew up to serve his nation as a great statesman, scientist, and public leader.



4. Azim Premji (Businessman)
The chairman of IT giant Wipro and silver haired business genius dropped out of college and started running the company at the young age of 21. With a net worth of 11 billion dollars.



5. Akshay kumar (Actor)

With a black belt in martial arts and a natural knack for acting, it would seem Akshay Kumar is overqualified for pretty much everything. However, the evergreen actor did leave college before finishing his graduation in Mumbai.

There are many more personalities like them in this world. Let us come to the conclusion that only education cannot win the race for us, skill development and working in the direction towards skills will definitely give an extra mileage to career and success.

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-Kushal



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