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I am making a second topic today because I felt this line needs discussion in today's scenario. Reason being there is a mad rush by parents for making their wards Engineers or doctors. As if only those two professions are needed to survive. Reason these two professions are looked mostly is because for former the IT boom, resultant onsite opportunity and money. In case of boys that means more dowry. And in case of latter an opportunity to make lucrative business in the so called private sector. I don't know how much true, but I have heard stories like in AP there is some famous coaching centre and during admission time its gate open exactly at 5 and will close at 5:10. All those who are able to enter the premises in those 10 minutes will get admission. I cant imagine the push and pull that might be happening. Personal experience. All the coaching centres takes your marks. Most of them prefer only the top scoring students since it is easy to coach them. During my time atleast the coaching classes were useful as problems were solved, equations were given or shall I say before proceeding towards entrance those teachers ensured the basics were taught. But couple of years back when my cousin was struggling with multiple tutions and I asked her what is the problem. She told in school the teacher wants to solve problem like this. Tuition sir says it is like this. Which is correct, I am confused. I went through her problemSchool said V=U+at, tuition said v(0)= u(0)+at(0). Anyone knowing physics will know both these equations are correct in their own way. One is static and other is relative. But when these people negate one for the other naturally a child who is just learning the fundamentals get confused. And as far as fundamental goes it has to be the former. Her tuition class without making her know the fundamental was preparing her for entrance, to solve the multiple choice question. If that was not enough another startling revelation she gave was problems are not solved in class. They tell theory, then give assignments for problems . I discussed with her and my aunt and we discontinued her coaching. Reason being a top scorer in 10th was confused to the core by these people as they were not able to answer her questions and the poor girl didn't had the capacity to mug up anything and everything without understanding. It is like that didn't work with her because neither at home or among relatives she was made to take it is like that just sitting. She was encouraged to question. She lost quite a lot of time, and quite lot of marks also in this mess. But thankfully the decision to discontinue tuitions gave her much better performance in 12th than she could muster in 11th. We need to understand that the children are the real losers in this melee of every child can study the same way or every child can study engineering. As responsible parents we need to understand our kids. We need to know their ability, encourage them to use their ability right way, help them to deal with failure, make them understand when they are not in line with majority that they are unique in their own way and ensure they get opportunity to show case that unique skill than sending them again in the pack telling your are lazy or something of that sort.
To be a doctor you need service mind, to be an engineer you need sharp analytical skills and logical reasoning.
An engineer's core subject is physics and they should be able to see what other's cannot. A doctor should have compassion as their core personality. Engineers deal with machines and physical space. Doctors deal with humans and inner space.
Also there are multiple other professions from sports, to arts, to banking, to lawyer to CA, to business where one can shine. Each profession needing its own special skills.
The problem with us is that we treat some traits superior, other inferior. No they are not. Everything is needed and the universe is making everything balanced only. We by creating unbalance are runining not only the present, but future generation also.
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