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Life Start’s-Beyond Academics | Do Our Educational Institutions Preparing Us For The Future?


School and College can be the absolute best years of a person’s life; full of fun, freedom, and meaningful learning that helps you on the way to getting the career that you have always dreamed of.

However, suddenly leaving the comfort zone of college and being thrust into the big wide world brings something new for new graduates.
 
Though they may be equipped for certain niche careers, they also need to have learned and know how to apply some important practical life skills to be able to fully embrace and adjust to this new, fully adult life.
 
Academics have always been an essential part of human development. It prepares us to survive in the outside world and establish an identity of our own. It creates the basic foundation of the person. Students get aware of their surroundings by the kind of stuff they learn in school or college.

But, is an individual’s development restricted to merely academics? Do the stuff we learn in school and college is sufficient to step out in this competitive and practical world?

In India, from an early age, we have been taught that education is limited to the boundaries of academics only; the idea of getting out into the field, for gaining practical experience, is always considered a hoax. 

Whenever a student tries to learn something or trying something different on their own, parents always interrupt them by saying- focus on your board exams, complete your studies first.

Do our school or college studies prepare us for the competitive world we are going to face after completing our graduation or post-graduation?

If yes, then:

  • Why students are committing suicides when they get a little bit less percentage. Is getting 99.9% is the only purpose of our education?
  • Why parents or even student compare them with someone else marks, packages, numbers of friends, likes on social media? Do we come on earth to compete with others or there is some specific purpose of our life?
  • Why students from the average college are not getting jobs with decent salaries at the initial stage of their job.
  • And most important, why so many people whether they are experienced or at an early stage of their career lost their jobs in COVID-19?

Don’t you think these signs are indicating something? Something is missing in our education system or we can say that we are forgetting the purpose of our life.

Here, the concept of Beyond Academics comes:

Beyond academics is a combination of life skills that focus on the 360-degree development of a student. It includes physical wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, intellectual wellbeing, environmental wellbeing, social wellbeing, occupational wellbeing, and spiritual wellbeing.

All the above skills come under the category of soft skills or social skills. If we ensure all these aspects of a person in his upbringing, then we can build a strong foundation for a student who is more confident to face any challenge in his life.


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