Education and the Pursuit of Money

I have until recently thought that education is the route that leads to increased knowledge. It edifies, prepares, instructs, inculcates, enlightens, edifies and much more. But hardly does the definition of education border along the lines of instruction for financial remuneration. Financial benefit is often a consequence to a good-education and not every educated person is able to make wealth or create wealth out of schooling. Sadly, the most important element in this whole misconstrued meaning of education is finance. This therefore means, some parents have worked out what fields or domains of work pay highly and they turn to shift either forcibly or persuasively their children's educational inclinations. The fundamental question posed, is, of what essence is more than a dozen years of schooling worth if it is unable to provide bread on the table or furnish the demands of a decent life? The home indoctrination becomes one which compels children to perform well in the sciences in order for them to become one of the top earners in the world as per this revelation on myplan.com (see blow) and if not, then you remain broke and wanting. And so many parents who strive the better good for their children are possibly forced by average income revelations to enforce some educational direction on their kids. It is at this point that we loose the essence of education-the morality behind education, is regrettably binned. It is no longer the pursuit of knowledge; it has now transformed its entire meaning to the pursuit of knowledge that is capable of yielding greater income. Good that every educated person needs to survive, but what happened to education that helps in improve elementary knowledge-education that enables rationality? My argument remains that parents should not force their little ones into professions against their will because they envisage that in the long run, they could be better off if they followed specific career pathways. It is painful to go through school trying to become somebody. It is even more painful that after all the attempts you may not get employed in the field in which you sweated. But like the Havard boys say, if you can't get a job, create one.

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