It’s not boring if we love it

It’s not boring if we love it

‘I don’t want to study its boring’, well it is a common statement we get to hear from a lot of students these days. It’s true that some people find some things boring and the same thing few find interesting but when a higher number of people tend to neglect something which might affect them is not a small issue. Students have been finding education not as a medium of learning and gaining knowledge anymore. It’s more about getting the right marks and going ahead. Education is not something that is to be taken lightly. And nowadays most of the time it’s not the student’s fault and actually it is the education system or the tutor’s fault.

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Well this is what it means and not how it’s done. Tutors and the education system are totally different in saying and in happening. I have been to 7 schools and none of them inspired me to learn anything new. The reason behind it was that none of the schools or tutors inspired or got me interested to study. All I thought was how to pass this semester. Gaining knowledge is important and in our education system it is said and done, but the fact is they never see if the student has received or understood the knowledge they imparted, then they simply ask if someone has a doubt or will tell you to prepare for exam.

So not only the students don’t receive proper knowledge, they have not learned anything and the only thing from beginning that scares them to think openly is exam. Students psychology is these many chapters have these many marks and I will do this, they don’t think openly that they should learn something instead they just prepare. And nothing that has not been learned will ever be in permanent memory. In this the students lack the focus and enthusiasm to learn something new. The ‘education system’ has become an ‘exam system’. Exam is important, but exam was put in education system to test what they have learned and their capability to store knowledge and to realize what their minds have stored. It has now become more important rather than knowledge.

Tutors have become sleek and with no enthusiasm to shape and inspire young minds. I am not talking about all tutors but more and more each day have been lacking enthusiasm to shape and inspire young mind. They just want students to understand and pass. For some tutors it is not even that, the tutor will come teach you and not give a damn whether you pass or not and the tutor will leave to never answer our doubts. Tutoring has become a business, like why on hell would students have to pay for school and tuition. Like the student has to pay 2 different people for the same thing, which sometimes neither of them is able to do and they get their money. Students not only have time wasted in going to different people to learn the same thing, he gains a lot less then what he pays for. The schools and colleges should do a better job and not let students join tuition's and teach them all in whatever money they take from the students. The tuition's student pay for might be better for student but the schools lacking it is a huge spit on the education system.

There are smart people who don’t get tuition's or go to school or colleges and rather learn from the internet or books or even to pursue something they want to and can achieve. These minds prefer not to stay in a system which keeps them from knowledge and learning. And these minds have been successful in their lives. For example Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard to invent that site you spend way too much time on, Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College to become the father of all things Apple, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to pursue his love of poetry. Just kidding, he founded Microsoft, Jim Carrey dropped out of high school at just 16. Alllrighty then!, Walt Disney dropped out of high school at 16, joined the Red Cross, and left for Europe, Abraham Lincoln left school at 12 to help his family farm, and then he became THE PRESIDENT, Bryan Adams, singer, songwriter is a High school dropout, Mukesh Ambani dropped out of his MBA program and went on to become the Managing Director of Reliance Industries and is also the 9th richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine Not bad at all, Sachin Tendulkar The God of Cricket only studied up to class 10 his prodigious skills on the field however, were apparent much before that, Azim Premji the chairman of IT giant Wipro and silver haired business genius dropped out of college and started running the company at the tender age of 21! With a net worth of 11 billion dollars, he hasn't done too bad for himself it seems, Gautam Adani dropping out midway through his Commerce degree, Gautam went on to start his own diamond brokerage company ostensibly named Adani Group. With a net worth of almost 6 billion dollars, Aamir Khan one of the most critically acclaimed actors of the Bollywood industry, Aamir is another example of someone who decided college was not for them. He studied up to class 12 and then followed his passion for acting, etc. There are many more, I am not saying dropouts make it better on top, I am saying having the proper knowledge and learning what you want to does help, the education system might not always help you but never leave our dreams for some system, educate ourself don’t depend always on someone or something find our ways and study something that you want to pursue and find interesting. Don’t stop and it’s not boring when we love it.

-Dhruvil Joshi