It has been a highly debateable issue among many individuals that schools must pay attention more on to academic achievement and accomplishing the usual rote learning method rather than focusing on livelihood skills. Moreover, the latter is proposed to be practiced from their respective homes influenced by their families. However, I totally disagree on the view that such vocational skills will only be learned at their houses and likewise, with insititutions only focusing on the academic aspect.
In particular, education is broad and general and some institutions must have a balanced approach upon teaching students both academic and livelihood skills. It is due to the fact that these could be crucial in the long run when they reach to the point that they need to look for job employment. Furthermore, passing a test for some is crucial in order to qualify for the next level in education or could be a chance to land on their prospective career. For instance, nowadays, companies are looking for special qualifications among job applicants who can do something beyond their job description that showcase their versatility and creativity that could be their edge to others. As a result, students who are equipped with adequate knowledge for both realms, it would probably pave the way for them to discover more about themselves apart from being in a serious learning environment.
Moreover, some contend that practical skills such as but not limited to cookery, dressmaking and woodwork must be acquired at home instead of learning it from the experts. However, although some may have the opportunity to learn these at home from their peers but there are those who have limited resources and only a handful of people have these expertise, unfortunately, it could not suffice the learning opportunity it has to offer as compared to established institutions. Take, prestigious schools in our country, for example, beginning from the primary school up to the junior high school, they already incorporated these technical skills along with academic courses, yet, there are positive feedbacks from parents. Conseuquently, this program of making these two aspects work together provide a significant impact on the learners as it helps them to develop certain expertise that they think that is quite beneficial for them.
In conclusion, it has been proposed that academic and vocational courses must be learned on different settings; the former should be at schools and the latter may be influenced to some close individuals. However, I am of the view that I wholeheartedly disagree on this notion since both of these could be incorporated to the prosepctus of the school and therefore produce a highly competitive individuals.