DOES IT REALLY MAKE SENSE TO COMPARE EDUCATION WITH SALARY PACKAGES

Imagine you are small kiddo enjoying life playing with friends without any stress or tension of excelling in life, and one fine morning you wake up and your mum and dad gift you a new laptop. 

You don’t even know how to use it perfectly; However, your mum and dad enroll you in a so-called ed-company who teaches how to excel in life and get a good job, bag a position of enormous salary, and subsequently starts teaching you stuff you don’t give a shit about.

 Some sort of coding stuff is going on your screen, but of course, you don’t pay attention. You want to go see your friends.

1-year passes, you haven’t been with all your friends playing your favorite games in the ground or play area. But you are accustomed to this system, and even if you aren’t, your mum and dad convince you to adapt yourself to this system. You go ahead, becoming a very bright student for the whole primary standard, but you don’t get straight A(s) in certain subjects. Eventually, you get passed to the secondary grades, but now your mum and dad are cursing you for your poor grades while they were the ones to advise you to take these coding classes seriously and devote most of your time to those. 

 But now, when you are in the secondary section, you won’t get passed to the next grade without passing all those subjects, sports, and co-curricular activities. But all you did was coding, not sports, not co-curricular, not subjects you liked. You lost your childhood AND possibly a few more years due to not passing. What do you do now??

Upon arriving in 9th standard, you develop a love for Biology or, say, Physics( Note that this is the best-case scenario, sometimes you never even find your real passion). What do you do now? Because you devoted so many years of your life to codes, that you don’t have enough time to catch up and do good in subjects YOU love.

Here when you are at this point, you are at a junction of 2 roads, 

Road one leads to killing your passion, and the second road points to fulfilling what your parents wanted you to become.

Notice how either of the roads leads to the demise of your passion. Sometimes the children get a third road provided by their parents to follow their will. Yeah, this is rare, but it is possible sometimes.

This type of third road has another intersection with another route. Also, some children find an alternative to the third road, i.e., since they don’t get the third road, they tend to pave the way for themselves. Either they muster courage and great determination and face everything with bravery and make it out the other way, or take the road less taken, leaving them to end their own life on the journey.

Now think of it. Some years back, we were told to prepare for it JEE and NEET from 11th and 12th onwards. That at least made some sense, but nowadays, people are teaching coding and stuff from an age when children are bound to play, cheer, cherish their lives without the stress of their “salary packages” and careers. 

See this? For kids aged 6-14!!!!

6-14!!!!!

Come on, this is supposed to be a joke, but it isn’t. companies like these advertise their money-reaping courses by showing some quotes by some great men/women who might have said something related to their courses.

Another one;

Now think about the relationship between coding and speaking. These so-called ed-tech companies are influencing the youth of our country to run behind money instead of chasing happiness. And they are winning at it. Children have started to realize the insecurities of not getting a multi-million job.

These types of advertisements not only influence a kid in the wrong way, but they also affect the child’s mindset of happiness.

But then some might ask, “Whats wrong with dreaming.”

See, the problem here lies within the statements of these types of companies. Making 16-18 years of child dream of a good package is far more different from making a minor child of 6-8 yrs dream of huge packages.

So what can be solutions to these?

My response to this would be that if anyone can stand up against this, it is us. Together as a society, we hit hard. These types of ed-tech companies should be mass canceled SOON.

Secondly, children should be taught the uses of the internet. They should be taught to use google.

Also, people should be mass educated. By this, I mean people who are not so well to do and do not belong to a filthy rich background. Codes and all are offered for free by Google and the internet. Henceforth they tend to buy these courses hoping that their kids would earn a considerable amount of money which would, in turn, help them get a better lifestyle. These companies hide the benefits of the internet and keep students locked into a loop of their platform. I want to conclude this by saying that all of these advertisements are not so worthy. 

And to all the parents, I hope you do enjoy seeing your child happy and flourishing. So please don’t enroll them in anything related to such higher studies at such a young age. Also, please don’t confuse education with learning. A child has to be educated by his parents, teaches relatives and so on. But knowledge comes from within. How hard you may try to teach a child all those complex stuff, the child will either memorize it or let it go. But only then he learns, when he wants, when he realizes when he can connect the dots, or when he falls. 

To all the young kids reading this, please do not stress about packages and jobs and all. Everything has its own time to come. That’s all! Enjoy your life and make new friends. Show compassion towards fellow living beings. You are too young to get yourself enrolled into a factory that no one needs, and by that, I mean the coaching classes and ed-tech companies. Your life has many good things to come, don’t waste it by giving your time to these types of things and worrying about things you shouldn’t worry about.