bro @wolfkhan degree has the importance of
- giving you exposure, and even more if you live in hostel
- making you and your parents comfortable about your future, because you know, if there is degree, there is good rishta, and if there is degree there is open possibility of government job and so on
however; most of our youth is never able to completely express their creativities and passion because they are forced to get degrees in thing they have zero interest. and so forth.
After industrial revolution, education was also industrialised. And eduction is not, should never be, and must never be made into an industry*
sometimes I imagine if i was living in renaissance Italy and I wanted to be a black smith making swords.
and I had two options,
Example 1 : first option is a guy who is telling me he will teach me how to make swords because he has a studied for 4+2+5 years on how to make swords however; he has never made a single sword in his entire life, has never lifted the hammer nor struck it on hot iron for once!
Example 2 : an old blacksmith who has been making swords for the finest warriors of Milan for the last 20 years
who will you choose to study under?
Of course example 2
In our universities in Pakistan, every 9 out of 10 teachers are PHD professors, who have never once in their life done practical work in their respective fields because they were lucky enough to get a scholarship for MS and PHD right after bachelors from HEC during the time musharraf made HEC. these people have not done any practical work relating to their fields, not for a single day! 9/10 teachers in NUST are like that. I can testify to this because I spent four bloody years grinding my way through an engineering degree.
Although the hostel and university did give me loads and loads of social exposure. it taught me absolutely nothing about my engineering discipline whatsoever. I had to self learn.
LUMS has a better ration. like maybe 2/10 are actual good teachers with PROPER practical experience.
most low end universities have 10/10 useless teachers. and so on.
in the end, you have to self learn and you can only do that if what you are studying is your passion.
I am absolutely against business eduction. and here I think my case is very, very strong.
Go and find a list of wealthiest businessmen in the world. you will hardly find a single one with Formal business education
Look at small business! Why is Maamu Burger, or Savour Murgh Pulao, or your local JDM dealer, or Karachi Biryani wala not an MBA?
because MBAs are like clerks, manufactured at scale to serve large businesses, and those large businesses were built by people who had no business education at all.
If businesses could be built by teaching a 2 year MBA. the world would be a very different place