If we are to look at examples like Bill Gates who went to
University and dropped out in the 2nd year and later became a
highly successful businessman you will get the answer to this
question - is the university path the best for yourself.
Many a time, when a student asks this question he is unsure of
himself what kind of education should he pursue and what kind of
life shall he lead even as he is reaching 18 of age.
That lack of clarity of his educational or career direction
itself shows that many students were not able to determine his own
education or career path due probably to lack of passion or
objective.
So the answer is does a person possess enough of passion or
objective as to what he or she wants for his own life.
The passion or objective a person has holds the key to his own
future.
If by 18 when he is still unable to decide on this goal, he will
most likely to end up just receiving an education whether at
university or poly or ITE level for education or academic reason to
improve himself and his knowledge or literacy. That is all.
In Bill Gates, we find a person who upon reaching adulthood has
already somewhere somehow found a passion or objective as to what
he wants to do with his career or life.
He has already carved out an interest in wanting to develop a
software for computer which will become the universal software
platform for every computer. Before that softwares were too
anarchic or random each offering its own uniqueness unable to offer
a common platform to be used on every computer. Ever come across
older operating systems like the original apple plus. They were not
easy at all to boot up and get around. A window with a row of
button to click and sub-button to navigate until one reach the
right choice of what one wants to do is the solution.
There were so many computer operating softwares as they were
management systems and given such individualistic trend of thought
in inventing of system to serve men, the world is divided and
anarchic.
Political leadership or system is another good example of
individualism with each one claiming its own advantages keeping
silent on its own faults so the world or students are confused and
unable to decide what is best suited to his own life or career.
A universal process management called Objective-Steps Processing
Management System has been tested to be working to serve all
management platform. Will people ever care to learn how to think
independently to treat education as a means to the development of
passion or personal objective without which education at best is
only a piece of paper qualification or passport to get around
without necessarily making the person a creative individual which
he has to be in whatever field he wants to be successful in.
He is asked to answer this question instead: is he persistent
and passionate in something. If he is when he goes to Poly he may
be just as good or better than going to university. Only society
makes us go for university because society works on external image
more than intrinsic values.