Education , a lucrative business

By Emil, 6, Siddshawari Lane. Dhaka
27 January 2004, 18:00 PM
Nowadays people are more civilised, because today our society is enlightened with the opportunity of education. Education can be compared with the most valuable wealth in this world. It is such a wealth that can never be stolen, bought and sold. Because of mismanagement of our policy, education is likely to be moved from its track of ideals.

The main role of education is to impart knowledge to the generals. Education is not only a means of livelihood, rather it is a means of livelihood of our soul. We can enrich our mind with this weapon. Education creates self respect, confidence, personality etc.

In today's world, importance of education is felt more than ever before. Now students can find themselves in a wide range of subjects. But unfortunately lucrative career based subjects are given the first choice. Students are looking for those subjects which will ensure them a bright career with handsome salary. Other humanitarian subjects including literature are deprived of meritorious students. The students of today's world are running after money, though at present, the civilised world is suffering from lack of humanity which is a very important issue.

We can see its impact on higher studies. Education is becoming an uniform of wealthy families. Many promising comparatively less meritorious students find themselves dropping out from higher educational institutions only because of huge tuition fees. Nowadays, the more reputable the university, the more is its tuition fees. We are lucky, because we don't have to see the barbarism of middle age. But now we lack something and that is unique. We don't have Shakespeare, Milton or Rabindranath, and we are suffering from an acute shortage of the wherewithal to develop human quality. We must make the younger generation aware of its necessities. Money is essential for saving life, but with an 'unfeeling mind' life is truly wasted.