If Life is giving incentive for students to go to a good school
just because later on in their lives they can show and present the information
of their quality, then many Students are trying to get in to the school not to
learn but simply because of their CV. What I am saying, is that there are a lot
of students that have the capacity to be very educated people, however, they
try to get into the school like Harvard because they later on want a better
paid job. The problem with this is that a person that might be a better student,
with more experience but didn’t attend Harvard will not be accepted to the job(who
would you choose? a student from Harvard or Univerzita Komenského in Bratislava?). This creates incentive
for students to get to a good school, rather to learn and explore the world.
In Slovakia this affects many young ambitious students. There
are several scholarships to study abroad during high school. There are
approximately 10 – 15 scholarships every year and hundreds of students applying
to them. There are rigorous application processes. The scholarships are really
lucrative for students, because if you want to experience a year or two abroad
and don’t want to pay for it (or don’t have money to do so) than those are the
best options. The problem however is to select the 10 best students. On what basis
do you choose? The NGO’s that are giving out the scholarships have developed
their own strategy. They want smart leaders that are doing a lot for their
community. What if person that isn’t this type of person still wants to get the
scholarship? However not only those people. Even the smart leaders still try to
be better than other smart leaders. So what they do, is that they try to get
involved in as many as possible NGO’s, student organizations as possible. They don’t
want to do it because they are good and willing to help people, but just
because of their own self interest.
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