C
hemical and Process Engineering
was a major my good friend
pursued while attending the
University of Dar es Salaam. His
tuition fees plus other costs
amounted to $3,000 per year; that’s
a fortune in Tanzania. For five years
now, he’s been out of college, and
nowhere close to paying off his loan.
He works for a non-governmental
organization. As might be expected,
that aforestated major hasn’t been
valuable to his current position, or
any job he’s ever had in his career.
Leading a full-scale reinvention of
education remains a dream challenged
by reality.
The current education system is
outdated. We have seen many social
entrepreneurs taking shots at
reinventing, upgrading, and fixing
the outdated model with courses and
boot camps focusing on skills and
online education.
The answer is NO.
Are you going to wait until someone
somewhere has succeeded on
reinventing education before you acquire the education you want? Do you
plan to start off your career with a pile of
student loan debt?
The real question is whether college
education opens doors to your dream
life.
Instead of drowning in student loan
debts in the pursuit of a piece of paper
you should be running your own
business.