by Héctor Ponce - an Argentinean techpreneur & Chief Financial Officer at C-Labs, Argentina. Héctor is an Android developer and loves to travel. He tweets @p11arkad.
The question itself is the wrong one to ask.
If we make those careers “more attractive”, we will only
continue to create workers who do not think differently, who settle for
mediocrity, and who are only interested in the next paycheck. By making them
more attractive, we are going to be bribing students into those occupations.
The professionals, the best at their craft, are the ones who
discovered their passions and worked on them. They are the ones who understood
that it is ok to be who you are and do what you love to do. They are the ones
who push the human race forward.
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If we want to create more people like that, what we should
be asking is “how do we encourage people to discover and nurture their
passions?”, “how do we inspire people to never lose touch with their natural
abilities?”, and “how do we provide channels for their manifestation?”
We are all born with tremendous capacities for creativity.
Every child is born a genius. Every
child is imaginative and curious. At the same time, every child has
different tastes, skills and talents.
That’s why I believe that there is no lack of talent. There
never was, and there never will be. The problem is that in today’s systems of mass education,
those skills we are born with, are neither appreciated nor rewarded. In fact, they are repressed and
underestimated.
We allow to be pushed by this sadly view of human capacity,
and from a very young age we forget what our talents are. We adapt this way of
thinking as our own, we don’t question them and we apply them on the next
generation. Therefore we become part of an apparently never ending cycle,
continuing a process that feeds itself. We accept the advice from teachers,
friends and family that however well intentioned, end up making us unable to
connect properly with our individual talents and passions.
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In order to foment engineers, technicians and scientists,
who will strive for innovation, who will excel at what they do, and who will
give us hope for the future, we have to do three things:
1- We need to promote awareness of the extreme importance of
nurturing natural human gifts along with an understanding of how different
individuals have different talents.
2- We have to stop giving so much value to standardized
tests, which only measure some kind of intelligence. Tests which left aside
things that a score could never indicate.
3- We must educate the young ones to live a life with
purpose and meaning while working on things they love. We must encourage them
to pursue their higher callings, to share their unique talents to the world, to
set goals and to dream.
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