The
lectures have the slogan ‘What is done at the field is different from
what we study’ but we are train to be master in all, why do you feel
responsible to waste somebody's lifetime at school to teach the person what is
entirely different from or very old than what is done in real life. Professors
at the field had been talking about the same issue of turning our education
system to vocational and technical skills but I will say this system should be channeled
also through entrepreneurship to help learners to organize their knowledge into
action. This will earn them money for living and will help curve the economic
issues of the nation.
One
entrepreneurial consultant said “Dream without action is useless” and
the same way, if you are the best student in the world and cannot organize your
knowledge into action, it is useless because it benefit only you and not
others. People do not see the importance of it. It is nonexistence and I will
call it hallucination. The trend had been like, finish school and apply for
public sector jobs and the necessary training will be given to you before the
actual work is started. That is what most employers are doing because graduates
lack the practical skills of their knowledge.
Ghana can
be built through vocational and technical skills (specialization) and
entrepreneurship mind set.
My focus
now is, I want my fellow youth to be entrepreneur minded and I believe we can
make our country a better place.
According
to the writer of the book “The rules of entrepreneurship” ROB YEUNG. Thousands
of people every year stump up huge fees to attend business schools and, for the
most part, their goals are to graduate and become entrepreneurs, to start-up
business, get venture capitalists to invest tens of millions, get employed in a
specialize field of choice and become obscenely rich and successful. You don’t
need to have been to business school or to have studied business because
courses only teach you what has work in the past.
Entrepreneurs,
on the other hand, often try to do something new, different, better. “Being a
risk taker in other words, being a sole opportunity recognizer around an
environment of difficulties. To use the cliche, entrepreneurship is
sometimes about “thinking outside the box”.
The person
who can organize and direct a ‘Master Mind’ group of people who possess
knowledge useful in the accumulation of money is just as much an educated
person as anyone in the group. Remember this, if you suffer from a feeling of
inferiority because your schooling has been limited. Thomas Edison had only
three months of ‘schooling’ during his entire life. He did not lack education
neither did he die poor. Henry Ford had limited ‘schooling’ but he managed to
do pretty well by himself, financially.
The fact
that Ford and Edison did not have much formal schooling does not give today’s
young people an excuse to drop out of school. Today a minimum and good standard
of formal education is necessary to get a good start in the world of business.
As a young
entrepreneurship advocate, I will be happy if the education system of our
country can encourage entrepreneurial orientation to inculcate in the youth the
spirit of entrepreneurship in order to
stop thinking and waiting for the government to employ them, before they start
doing something to better their lives and others as well.
Be reminded
that "Dream without Action is Hallucination".
Thank you
Isaac Agya Koomson.
(CEO of EKSEL consult)
0241332246.
2 Comments
Great write up. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteThat's great keep the good works going
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