ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: IS PRE- REQUISITE FOR SUCCESS… Amartya Sen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize, the Bharat Ratna Puruskar and so many other prestigious awards, is definitely one of the most treasured Indians. He has brought in, innumerable changes, revolutionized and challenged existing thought patterns and beliefs in economics and related fields. Surely there could be no better illustration of the glory of academic qualification
Namskar to this intellectual gathering, the distinguished members of the jury, I, code no- vehemently support the motion – Academic qualification: Is pre-requisite for success.
My counter parts may b convincing enough in their efforts of establishing that academic qualification are not the only prerequisite to success……but to their utter dismay I would acknowledge their efforts as totally misguiding. Qualifications are about conforming to standards – standards of knowledge and proficiency, standards of expertise and training, standards that allow one person to be compared t o another.
My worthy oponents may argue that academic qualifications can hinder business acumen but friends, this business would not have been possible without the founders’ qualifications. In India, today all the heads of the leading bussiness houses are well proficient in their academic qualification. Ratan Tata, Kumar mangalam Birla, rahul bajaj, mukhesh ambani and many other bussiness tycoons of our country persued their post graduatation from the pretigious global universities. These people with degrees have achieved success in many walks of life..
The examples of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs being college drop outs, may constabtly be put forth, but, a very few are aware of the fact that Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside school in 1973 and had scored extremley well in the SAT exam after which he got enrolled at the harvard university but due to his other priorities he had to leave the course in between. Even Steve Jobs was a high school pass out and had enrolled for college aducation. He had to drop out after six months due to financial problems. But he kept attending some of the classes w hich he found interesting. This clearly indicates that even Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both had aspired for a proficient academic qualification.
There may be a few people like who have made it, in spite of their lack of academic qualification, but can this be generalized?? Sure, success in some fields may come without academic qualifications, but how many people do you think win a Nobel Prize for medicine or physics or literature without academic qualifications? There may be a few hundreds like Bill Gates, but what about those millions of doctors, engineers, IT professionals, lawyers, and advocates who rely upon their formal education? Statistically speaking, entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they graduate college than if they don't. A 2008 study by Vivek Wadhwa, Richard Freeman, showed that "academic qualification provides an advantage in tech entrepreneurship. The 2002 Census Bureau's Survey shows that two-thirds of business owners had a college degree or higher.
Therefore it is an unannounced rule of both the corporate and the social world that a man's acquisition of academic qualifications is a giant leap towards opportunities in every walk of life. And above all, friends, success is , about making the most of your talents and abilities, and that requires dedication and study in academic institutions that will stretch you intellectually.
On that note, I would rest my arguments, with a few lines that further glorify my stand :-
Education
the light of our life
A gift of academic rife
Education
the key to a bright and rewarding future
A glue that joins our dreams like a suture