Have Your Say: Education is a Scam!

It is widely said “Education is the best legacy”, “Education can make you rich”. In fact a former president of Havard University Derek Bok says: “if you think education is expensive, try ignorance”. Never changing, this suitable sentences are often used to how pertinent is what we called education, but, quite undesirably, many people who dabble in education end up gaining little or nothing in it.

Parents and care-givers spend a lot of money on their children in order to acquire formal education, many years are spent by the students in their tertiary institution with suffering and other undesirable occurrences, yet all they see after graduation is unemployment.

Analogically, people that go for vocational training are making wave than those that vie for formal education. The number of graduates that are roaming around the street without employment are more than the number of people that go for vocational or entrepreneurship training roaming on the streets.

The amount spent to attain formal education can be used to set up a business that will eventually, scintillatingly and flamboyantly thrive. Calculi the total amount you used to secure accommodation in the tertiary institution, the amount of tuition fees, miscellaneous fees, the amount for buying hand out and do your assignments amidst others. Convincingly, if well utilized, the amount used to acquire formal education can be used to establish any vocational skill.

Despite spending that amount, discouragingly, people that go for entrepreneurship skill for 6 months or 1 year will be better than people that pass through the fiery, rigorous, torturous and strenuous educational system.

Peradventuredly, when the people that acquire education find jobs, the amount they be given will be low in comparation to the amount of money paid to acquire education.

No one is arguing that formal education is not good, but, it should not be expensive as it is. There are some people that acquire education, but their salaries are nothing to take home, while some do not even secure a job. Why will someone pay heftily and when expecting the reward get unsavoury, horrific and unpleasant fees or honours?

Aptly, if formal education cannot guarantee people success, if it cannot invigorate people to be more intelligent than their counterparts, if it cannot release people from poverty, if education cannot provide jobs, if it cannot help people to be rich, then, education is nothing, but a SCAM as far as people without having it flourish in the world.

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