“Just go for it and give it a try. You don’t have to be a professional to build a successful product. Amateurs started Google and Apple. Professionals built the Titanic.” I just happened to read these lines on the whatsapp profile of one of my best friends from college. And it struck me hard like a bolt from the blue. Being part of the academic domain by profession, it made me wonder how true this reality is and how far it stays from what we instil in our younger generations through the current system of education. Today’s education system stigmatizes failure and standardizes creativity. And that is one of the biggest reasons why our children feel so scared to try! That precisely is why our younger generation wants to be only engineers and doctors even though our land is filled with unemployed or ill employed people from these streams. Very few of our youngsters display the guts to follow their real dream especially if it is not the fad of their times. And ultimately we get
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