Education Conspiracy

Sunny weekend morning. Posh housing community. Man washing his Bentley. Neighbor watering plants. 

Greets with smiles. 

"Hey, Bill."

"Morning, Evelynn."

Bill        : Hey you know what, I just bought over this software thing from an Indian chap. Thinking of starting something.

Evelynn : What you got in mind?

Bill        : Dunno. Maybe a software company. Gonna be big. So I'll probably need your help with starting it up.

Evelynn : Sure thing, Bill. What you need?

Bill        : I'm gonna need a large influx of new grads majoring in this new computer-related degree. I've thought about a name, but nothing nice popped out yet. Information Technology, maybe.

Evelynn : Sounds like a good idea. As long as you can provide sustainable jobs, I can make them dirt cheap for you. 

Bill        : I could show you my plan. Maybe we could talk this over some coffee later. 

Evelynn : Sounds like a plan.

Sit in a lecture hall and you'll constantly hear lecturers going on and on about getting ready for the work life outside, how to be a good employee, how to move up in the corporate ranks. Has any lecturer ever taught us to maybe start our own companies and hire some employees of our own? Have you also ever wondered why huge multinational conglomerates almost always give out scholarships to high scorers without asking for anything in return other than to keep the spree going? 

Because they all know we'll make fine employees some day. Because they all know we'll probably not graduate to be a business owner, and therefore not a competitor. Big-ass companies all around the world make sure all of us are groomed to become fine new workers. Workers for them. Workers that will benefit them. 

Many years back there was a surge in fresh graduates holding degrees to Information Technology. So much so that many were unemployed for a long period of time. Some even ended up waiting tables or distributing flyers to wait out the queue. Those employed were paid peanuts, because there was no union protecting them, and because they know there were tonnes out there that would do anything for his/her job. The right people told the right friend to do the right thing so they get the right people for the right price. We're all chess pieces here.

The Universities we were educated in are business entities, which means they make money or they get closed. The lecturers who taught us were cowards who were too afraid to face the real world, ending up forever confined within the Walls of Comfort. We paid to be carefully brainwashed into thinking the world outside only accept studious employees. They don't. More than half of the fresh graduates out there are suffering because they don't know how to think critically. This means leaving your textbook at home and tackling a problem by actually using that webbed right hemisphere. Don't go cutting your wrists yet. It's not all our faults. The people teaching us are too afraid to live in the real world, and yet they were the ones to groom us for it. How ridiculous that must sound now.

It is, unfortunately, unavoidable that the world's education systems are made to create workers and not Fortune 500 founders. What is avoidable is the mentality one holds on to when attending these teachings. Look at things in a different perspective. Dare to be bigger than everyone else in your class. And when you do become founder of a Fortune 500 someday, allocate some funds for student scholarships. They give your company a good name, and they help eliminate future competitors.

The writer is merely expressing his personal view in this post. There are no evidence whatsoever to back any of his claims, and therefore should in no way be treated as valid claims. The dialogue enactment was fictional, and any similarities with real life people are purely coincidental.