Education and Jobs: Time for Bridging the Gap

Career is a word that is being used in abundance from the moment we enter kindergarten. It is a word every student is either afraid of or ignore the role it plays in their adolescent lives. Career can be simply defined as the path we take to pave our journey of life. It is the road that we take to reach the destination we want. It is synonymous to words like goal, plan, etc.
Career is metaphorically connected with the education we are recipient of from our very childhood. But with the deteriorating condition of our education system, career has totally morphed into a different species for a student. From a very early age, we are taught to conform our ideas to that of our predecessors or whatever the teacher teaches us.
A child has an imagination that is individualistic in nature, form and shape. The first and foremost guru of a child is the parent who teaches how to walk, talk and get ready to face the challenges that this world offers. Then the child gets a mentor in the form of a teacher who shapes that unrestrained mind to his/her own understanding which to some extent is required. But its major drawback is that it gradually depletes the child’s individualism. It then eradicates the uniqueness and creates a robot that just follows the instructions and doesn’t think out of the box.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts- C.S Lewis
With this avalanche of unemployment, the need of the hour is a major change in the curriculum of higher education. The teachers must create a wholesome way of teaching where the capabilities of a child should be harnessed to the best of his abilities. Innovation is the key to development as we all know and it should be the motto of our education system. Hence, when a child gets education which cultivates ideas and has a free reign on his mind, then and only then it will become easier for him to get a job that he wants and deserves. An adult, who knows what his passion is, cultivates it to become his strength and then uses that strength to get a job. This is the key to get a satisfying job which will further enrich the mind to think higher and broader that ultimately leads to a higher standard of living and a feeling of contentment. And concluding this outpour of thoughts, all we as teachers need to do is to create innovators and all a student must do is to think beyond the horizon where lays a land that is the answer to all the problems.