Graduation and Education

 

Graduation and Education

There is a distinction between graduation and education. While graduation stems from education, proper education encompasses much more than graduation, post-graduation, MPhil, doctorates, and post-doctorates. It includes our school and university experiences, life, the environment, and the people around us. Upon completing our university education, a degree certificate symbolises our graduation, but there is much more to life beyond these degrees. Life is an ongoing process of learning, with no definitive completion.

Let us consider a few examples to illustrate the importance of understanding ongoing learning. Having a degree is not meaningful if we lack self-awareness. A degree without civic sense is of no use to us or others. If we do not know how to value our own time and the time of others, then the years spent in university are wasted. Furthermore, having a degree and not knowing how to earn, save, and invest proves that the money spent on graduation has just gone down the drain. Not knowing how to relate to people means that the person sitting next to us in class may remain merely a classmate, rather than becoming a meaningful connection.

Focusing exclusively on academic subjects without learning how to manage ourselves, interact with others, and navigate the realities of life can lead to disaster, both for ourselves and those around us.

Gain your university degree, but continue educating yourself to remain humble and resilient, embracing the perspective of being an eternal student of life.

M.L. Narendra Kumar