Highly qualified vs Highly educated

Hi,

Musing #27

In my musing # 24 I had exposed the charlatans in the financial fiefdom who gamble with other's money most of their time, drawing fat salaries for the same. Surprisingly no comments were posted about this blog. Was it because I was adding salt to the wound or many of you felt that you were not affected by these charlatans. If these charlatans are not going to be exposed, take it from me they will metastasize and spread the malignancy all over and every one will have to face the trauma.

Today's victim of this cancer, Mr. Karthik Rajaram, a B.Tech from IIT-chennai and an MBA from UCLA, an NRI based at Los Angles shot his three grown up sons, his wife and his aged mother-in-law because he not only lost his job, but became bankrupt because of losing his life's savings. What use was his qualifications if it did not,

1. make him a strong man first and foremost to face adversaries,

2. make him more knowledgeable about "risk management".

3. make him learn that "failure is not the end of the road but a diversion to be taken to reach the destination called success".

4.That he can play God and decide that his near and dear one's also will be cowards like him and that in his absence they can not survive and will perish and hence it is better now, by his own hands rather than later so that he can die peacefully(sic).

It is high time that our so called educators re- evaluate our education system, ignoring the pseudo concepts floated by the arm- chair gurus who are theoretical, and get the education system revamped by practicing managers who have slogged and come out successfully like the pure Gold that is purified by it's ordeal with fire.

People may acquire all sorts of fancy qualifications from many hyped up institutions, but the moot question is did they acquire only qualification to serve as appendage after their glorious names or they really got educated to face all stark realities of life and acquire the common sense and resilience to go through the ordeal by fire so that their problem solving skills do not take recourse to pulling the trigger on them and, Oh God! on their near and dear ones also.

I'm quoting here my Guru Mahatma Gandhi on "The Roots of violence" and am giving live examples to illustrate how valid his timeless teachings are ,even in today's context,

1. " Wealth without work"- Trying senSEX to get rich overnight and ending up with another kind of killer AIDS( Aggravated Investment Death Syndrome).

2. "Pleasure without conscience"- Abusing the body with all substances for momentary pleasure and ultimately killing their and other's life.

3."Knowledge without character"- All those educated terrorists who use their knowledge only to cause murder and mayhem.

4."Commerce without morality"- All those chemists and druggists who sell addictive drugs to youngsters knowing very well that they are ruining the lives of these youngsters. Also credit card companies luring gullible people with their cards and trapping these people in a deadly debt trap.

5."Science without humanity"- All those international scientists who blew up billions of dollars to recreate the supposed to be "Big Bang theory of formation of our mother earth "(LHC experiment) and the Indian scientists who are blowing up crores of rupees in chandrayan when the same money could have been used to set right so many humanitarian issues plaguing our earth like hunger, sickness, terrorism, suicides , illiteracy etc. etc.

6. "Worship without sacrifice"- All those spiritual leaders who do not fore go their comforts to transform the life of down trodden and suppressed people in their own religion but cry hoarse and even instigate violence when some one from their religion chooses different faith to seek his salvation. This in spite of their religious teaching "Vasudeve Kutumbakam" IE. irrespective of which religion anyone is following the whole world is one big family.(Hindus attack on Christians in Orissa & Karnataka)

7." Politics without principle"- Examples are plenty for this, but the latest example was witnessed in West Bengal where due to one selfish woman's vote bank politics she misguided many, resulting in lots of violence and death and also ultimately TATA said Tata to all those eager workers seeking employment in TATA's NANO factory and moved to Gujarat. There is some poetic justice in this because the communists got the taste of their own medicine that is "agitation for agitation sake , and don't care who suffers in my agitation"

In all the above seven "Roots of violence" cases all the perpetrators are/were highly qualified but unfortunately their costly and time consuming qualifications did not give them their due education. Let us appeal in unison to,

Teachers prepare your students by educating them to face life and not just examinations.

Students acquire education not just qualifications.

Parents get your children acquire education and not just qualifications

Would be brides and grooms check out how well your would be is educated and not qualified

Employers assess not only how well the candidates whom you want to recruit are qualified but also assess how well their qualification has educated them.

Bosses evaluate your subordinates based on their educated contribution to the long term benefits of the team and the organisation rather than going by the alphabets added as suffix to their names. Don't get carried away by their fancy theories and jargon's which they throw up only to hoodwink the system and when the collapse is in the horizon they will be the first to desert like the proverbial rats.

To set right the distinction,

Managers are always highly Qualified

But

Leaders are always highly Educated.

Unfortunately we have plenty of managers in our midst today and only handful of leaders.

mentor mohan