Last week during my dinner at a local hotel I met with a group of people who were debating on the “educational qualification for the politicians” topic. Below is the gist.
Everyone know how their politicians are and about their educational background. Same time everyone will be agreed that it is always good to have an educated person in politics rather then an undereducated one. This is for sure that educational qualification does not make a politician or a person great but educational qualification is something which opens up the attitude towards everything and gives a character to a person. Obtaining degrees from aboard not only makes them a qualified person but also makes them qualified to judge the difference between developed nations and our country. They can very well see and compare both the nations and work towards making our country a better place to live. Yes, it is agreed that it is not as easy as it is told in the last couple of sentence but for sure an educated foreign scholar is a better man to handle a country. Atleast they can take better logical decisions because of their wisdom.
In the same time this is what the other group says, “Serving for a country, having a good vision for the country, taking decision for the goodwill of the country, taking the country in a right direction and utilizing the state recourses in a meaningful way for the betterment of the country are essential qualities that constitution expects from those serving public life. Education teaches you to read/write. How much do they teach about above things? Also good education not necessarily means person will take right decision and will be corruption free. If you see majority of scandals or corruption the involved people are engineers, builders, clerks and managers who of course are graduates.
Critics’ voice please.
Education plays the same role, whether you manage a company or a country. The value of education can be assessed from the enormous price that corporates are ready to pay for a single educated person in their team. Ethics, motivation are all parallel issues, they cannot be guaranteed in any situation, but even then, a guy who has motivated and disciplined himself so much as to attain those heights of academic success seems far more promising that a person who had no desire or discipline to complete a high school or college degree. National elevation can only be expected from a person who has elevated himself first, not otherwise.
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