Education = Employment?

It is true that the better educated in many, if not most societies, are able to get better and better paying jobs. Hence at least in practice, it does not seem that more often than not education does enable people to gain employment. By gain employment is meant that they have the option to choose a desired employment while less educated and uneducated have to be satisfied with whatever employment is left to them-often manual labour. Here it needs to be clarified that not all educated people-educated in the sense of schooling- are able to get whatever job they want.

Mankind has come a long way. Hundreds of years ago, it has been established that education was a means of making a person a better person. It was something that constantly improved a man. If education mainly aims to teach a means of living, then we are reducing the whole world to a population of craftsmen. In fact, if all is desired is that education should be a means of living, there is no need for people to spend so much time in school.

Education is most of all for refining an individual. It is to teach him/her to write, read and calculate. Subsequently, it is to make him expand his mind and to know a whole lot of things which will make him wise and appreciate of the achievements of the human race. Education is to enable a man to lead to higher life. An educated man is expected to be able to discuss intelligently about world affairs, listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.