Knowledge learning vs. controlling

This is a discussion with my brother-in-laws regarding the failure of our local graduate in looking for job opportunity. The past 2 months, the were many convocation for local and private universities and I do not how many thousand of graduates will sit in the house to look for job. Is this our education system failure? I still remember in my time, there are only 6 universities in Malaysia such as UM, UPM, UKM, USM, UUM & UTM. The opportunity to get a seat in local university was very tough even you had good result in academic especially for those people applied university with SPM result. For the instant, total graduate during year 1998 at UTM was around 3 thousands only compare with now with multiple of universities either local or private. Those day, you are able to get a career before you graduate because they know the quality of the student.

Sad to say that now university or college looks like a manufacture to produce huge quantum of graduates and the student are suffering due to inefficiency in communication and latest knowledge in the market.

No doubt that graduate has been thoroughly tested by university or college before issue a scroll to them but most of them are proud and cease learning in their life. They expect they are able to earn a living with their knowledge in university. I agree that we learn a lot of subjects and some even get dean certificate for all the semesters. The question raise in this issue is how many of us how to utilise the knowledge we have been learned for 4-5 years in university.

In school even until university, we are trained to study hard and pass the exam. We seldom be taught how to use the info or knowledge when we are in the real market. Eventually the government realized the over supply graduate problem and create an idea of in agriculture business which we can heard now like mushroom, catfish and all sort of business regarding agricultural. I am a planter and I know agriculture a great business which has a huge market. Usually, those with agriculture business are rich in oversea but no in Malaysia where government attempt to correct the path of agricultural business.

I coded an example. Catfish business is quiet famous at the moment and they are many people jump into this business. Conceptually people involve in business because of the income but without a proper knowledge and controlling then business will be a lot of loopholes. In business or education, we need to change our mindset that there is no shortcut to success. Failure is an improvement and motivation subject in our life. Never feel sad or down because of failure. The message of failure is telling that there are still have a gap to improve and perform better. My summary is control and know what you learn rather than just blindly score full marks.