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This is not your usual advice but a set of common sense questions on Mis-education.Most of our educational systems do not prepare our children to have the greatest chances of success in their future lives.
We spend a lot of our money and time studying what we will never use in real life.
Just find out how much of what you learnt in school,college or university is used in your daily life.

Are the good grades you scored in the educational institutions you attended of any good value in your life?If so,why do many school or college drop outs lead successful lives.Why do they control our computers,stock exchange and even airlines?
I wonder how many of us are in careers that we trained for.Were you ever asked during your school days what you wanted to be when you grew up?I wonder if the answer you gave is your career now.
Do all medical students end up practising medicine?Were all our politicians political science students?
Are our best selling books written by the best students of writing or literature?I hear all our award-winning journalists had the best grades in their journalism classes,true?Some of them never even attended journalism classes.
I am yet to meet any of our successful businesspeople who graduated from the best business school.
Our world is rapidly changing but educational systems have not changed.A fact witnessed by the huge number of people changing careers everyday.
Our schools and colleges do not teach us successful real life skills and therefore some of us rely on self-taught and self-made role models and mentors.

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