I was invited by Public TV
to conduct a Career Guidance session at their
Career Fest in Palace Grounds. Though I
was pleasantly surprised to see that there were hundreds in the audience (and I
was flattered when some of them told me, “we came only to listen to your
talk”), I was once again concerned about the absolute lack of awareness or
knowledge about the immense possibilities and options that today’s world
offers, and more so with the method they need to use to select their
career.
As adults we force children
to go on studying for hours and hours, day after day, completing “portions” and
facing innumerable exams. But we do not give them any inputs to actually make
them successful and happy human beings.
We do not guide them and teach them how to take the right
decisions. Worse, we not allow them to
follow their dreams and aspirations, and wish to make them robots by getting
into routine and boring careers just because there is more “scope” in them. It
is the responsibility of every adult to ensure that we allow children to
blossom out and grow the way they want.
Aside: Western countries were spending more and more money
making robots, till they realized that very intelligent third world youngsters
are willing to work like robots at much less cost !
