Education is the key...The key to what?

Growing up, I've heard this a lot...
 "education is the key"...

 Sure, it is but to what?  The key to success? or the key to locking the door of success? For this, I want to put myself in the shoes of a student who is studying towards a career path which is limited in job availability.

  The key to success, you say? You mean succeeding in job hunting for a good 10 years with a qualification in your hand?  You mean having obtained distinctions but can't graduate because you don't "fall under the right economic status"?

 It's funny, we are encouraged to get an education yet once we do, it means nothing for a couple of years. Our qualifications in some parts of the world are considered "weak". So even we graduate this side, what are the chances of being recognised outside our country?

 I am not saying don't get educated, I'm actually strict on education but at the same time I'm baffled as to why our sisters and brothers are supposed to get it if in any case it will  benefit the economically fit and the socially connected ones.

How are our children supposed to believe in Education if top students are rewarded iPads and models are rewarded cars and big bucks?
I especially speak about models because we add emphasis that girls should be educated to change the world and their country but it's the uneducated one or self educated one who gets the biggest piece of the pie.
It's the pretty face who gets to represent the country and not the intellectual one...

Speaking of self education. We also talk about it like it's easy.  "ag man, look for a need in the community ko kasi, o tlaba grand"...Guys?  you know I'm talking to you. 

Question is how easy is it to find a need? Even if you find a need, how easy is it to start working on it? Think about what I'm saying though....We aren't all afforded the same opportunities, that's what some people don't understand...

So when they tell us to go to school...what exactly are they telling us????