Dropouts

Recently, I have noticed one very important issue—the dropouts are getting too much highlighted in the society. I do not know whether it is intentional on unintentional that their stories are receiving worldwide publication. It seems that they are proud to be dropouts. The most highly recognized dropout is Bill Gates. His famous quote, “I failed in some subjects in Exam, but my friend passed in all, now he is an engineer in Microsoft, and I am the owner of Microsoft’ is inspiring to the students or to the dropouts! There are some singers, some politicians and some very rarely found creative dropouts seem inspiring people to dropout. Aren’t we giving them extra recognition? Aren’t we giving our next generation to become one? Aren’t we setting bad examples to the descendants? Aren’t we offering them to be blindly following a few successful dropouts leaving all the hardworking finishers? There are so many other quotes of so many dropouts for the necessity of education, their sufferings for not completing their studies, but all the negatives are being published. Media are with the flow. Student mind is a small plot where seeds of knowledge have to be sown. If bad seeds are sown, no matter how nicely you tend it, you will get a bad harvest. Once or twice if you get a good harvest, you should not become obsessed with it. We have examples of very successful dropouts…… but I don’t think we should start a trend of following them. Rather their extra labor to attain success or hardship they needed to undergo for lack of education should be getting noticed. It is human tendency to follow the negatives more. So media must look into the matter or else the steps taken by the Government, NGOs, privet sectors will be nipped in the bud.