EDUCATION AND CAREER
India is an agricultural country and at least seven-tenth of the boys living today will eventually become farmers, the tendency of education has often been to discourage rather than prepare them for farming. The average youth still looks to education as an escape from agriculture instead of preparation for it. Eventually, as it often happens for some reason, the way to a salaried position is closed, and he is forced to take up agriculture as an occupation. He considers himself unfortunate and his parents speak of the time and the money spent in the school as wasted. While it is not desirable that the teacher should attempt to make the boys in his class future farmers. It is a strange paradox that knowledge of the agriculture as an occupation should be withheld from them in nearly all schools. As far as possible a school boy should be free to choose the occupation for which he is best fitted, but without some knowledge and guidance during his years in school, he is not in a position to choose wisely.
It is strange that in an agricultural country like India education makes boys averse to farming. Service is the aim; but jobs being limited, many fail to get them and become farmers unwillingly. Time, energy and money spent on education looks wasted. Education must give knowledge of agriculture to help boys choose their professions wisely.
