Md Tafsirul Islam Rohan BECM '18 30th Jan 2021

Education: Curse or blessings?

One day my child will earn a lot of money, he'll steer the family- the most common accents for our teenagers in our existence. Our first 25 years pass only to accomplish the dreams of our parents. Sometimes for sacrificing our family, we start to break our dreams. We desire the choices of our parents. At the end of the day, we find ourselves in a tea tong or a cafe with a bucket of depression. I wanted to become a doctor, but as an elder son of parents, I have to helm the family, then they gave only the option to go in a technical line for completing fast graduation and steer the family. Then I chose this engineering life, but sometimes when I see my friends with white aprons, then just sighed!

Sir Thomas Alva Edison is a famous scientist and well known for his great novelty all over the world. At his early age, his teacher sent a letter that he is not capable of continuing his study in that school. But his mother started teaching at home by herself. After some years, the world got some great scientific creations like electric light, current, phonograph, etc from him. We know, our country is far behind its country. But we heard the name of the famous band musician James for his band Nagarbaul. When he wanted to be a musician, his family left him. He started to practice guitar in a small room with some friends in a small boarding out of his house. Now James is one of the best rock singers in the music history of this subcontinent. Famous writer Anisul Haque completed his graduation from BUET in Civil Engineering. Hopefully, God wrote him as a writer in his destiny. At the age of 10, Sachin Tendulkar failed his English exam and couldn't even pass the entrance exam. Now Sachin Tendulkar is the name of a lesson in the English book of India. Success depends on passion and determination for the subject. They preferred what they liked.

The main problem for our society is we believe in preposterous competition. Our school, colleges justify us by our marks in the exam which takes place for a few hours. If you are poor at short time memorization, you will be knocked out of the flow. We are memorizing whose theories, were they all very good at any short time test? They all were a good observer more than a good student at 90%. How you will invent something new to long term research where it is too much important for us to complete graduation with a great CGPA from a university. How can a person be wiser in all subjects equally? He should have a great influence in a special term that he loves. If he can sing or play musical instruments greatly, he doesn't need to write lyrics of songs. Our society likes those who earn a lot more than those who think a lot. At the end of the day, you have to maintain a family and need money. Then they stop their thinking and search for a job. The chairman of Alibaba company and multi-billionaire Jack Ma said we are never in lack of money, we lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.

Depression is the most common comorbid psychiatric disorder in people who die by suicide and 39% of global suicides occur in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region. This systematic review aimed to identify, for countries of this region, first the prevalence of depression among people who (i) die by, or (ii) attempt, suicide, Results in The 19 articles that met the predefined eligibility criteria were from five countries: Bangladesh (1), India (12), Indonesia (1), Sri Lanka (3) and Thailand (2). Eight studies, from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, reported the prevalence of depression among people who had died by suicide. The study settings varied, as did the proportion of depression recorded (6.9-51.7%), and the study sample sizes ranged from 27 to 372. Eight studies from India and one from Sri Lanka investigated depression among people who had attempted suicide. Using a range of screening and diagnostic tools, the reported prevalence of depression ranged between 22.0% and 59.7%. The study sample sizes ranged from 56 to 949. (Suicide and depression in the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region: A systematic review. Source)

It is important to switch the mentality of our society now. If any student wants to become an engineer, he can take his subjects what is applicable for him. If you want to become a businessman, you learn how to gain business and marketing knowledge. But there needs to be a Lil bit of change in our education sector too. Sometimes we criticize the students of other departments by saying some cheap words such as it is a very easy subject, if I got this, I would be more successful here or oh! You are a student of history! I thought you were in science!. You will concern a banker in the bank for your savings, not with a doctor. When you want to know the evolution of material, you have to go to an archaeologist. We go there to solve our problems.

Now come to reality. For Bangladesh, we have a shortage of jobs in every sector, if the human resource ministry works properly, how this huge population can be converted into wealth, then the pressure of jobs will be reduced. Our parents should give their children a chance to choose their profession themselves. Most of the time our engineers, doctors are rejected in megaprojects as they completed their graduation from this country, not from abroad. So what is the importance of our education system if it has no work? Engineers can be involved in such important projects, then we shouldn't have to appoint engineers from outside of the country. It is a sad reality for us to be unemployed after completing graduation. It is not important to search for a medical student to teach a student of class 05. A good student will be a good tutor, hopefully, it is wrong. Now the business is involved in the education sectors too. We should have a helping mentality for mankind. I believe, changing is possible if we change ourselves!

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