*This happens where I come from, my dear Egypt.
I prefer to call myself a knowledgeable person than an educated person -
A very absurd phenomenon happened to people with the evolution of mass communication, and the fierce competition between candidates. We find a person unqualified for a desk job because he's not good at sports, or because she's too pretty, or because he's fat, black, white, veiled, ... etc.
Then we find qualifications are exceeding that, you have to know a couple of languages, even if you know your native and the worldwide English language and you have to have soft skills, and have experience more than 3 years, othertime 5 years experience, you can be experienced for a year but NO! it's not enough. When I graduate and look for a job, where should I start if everyone is seeking 3 - 5 years expertise?
"They want the best"
but they fall in the wrong choices
So, people find themselves under pressure, and they start gathering "certificates" even though they don't know much about the material of classes they have attended or have passed. They have studied for an exam and bought the certificate.
"They need certificates, you need a job. it's a solved equation (x = y = 1)."
I remember my most "stupid" debate with one of my class mates, and we were arguing whether we should do the rituals of every year with one of our professors. The rituals were simply like this, we buy him a bouquet of flowers that range from EGP 200 to EGP 300 and we get good grades and pass the class.
I said that we shouldn't do such a thing and we shouldn't give him the chance to be lazy, arrogant, and over confident about his material and he should look thoroughly at what he teaches because we don't understand his class that's why we would probably fail without the bouquet. My mate had a different opinion, "We want to pass!" that's what he literally told me.
At the time we prefer passing a class than getting real education that might help us at some point in our lives, career, or else, people out there in the "real" world get real education and use people like us to do archive work.
People rush to classes, courses, outside/inside universities to get certificates, not to get educated, not to learn something new - just to get a filthy job to stay stuck in it their whole life till they die. I prefer to lose chances to get certificates than to kill the knowledge seeker inside. And I know I am losing, but I seek valued benefit not fake signed papers.
"I refuse to kill the knowledge seeker inside."
I hope one day someone would share this vision with me, to change wrong actions, and value knowledge.
