COUN-SELLING or COURSE-SELLING
Counselling is the newest fad of the city. Every student goes for it while in class 11th or 12th or after having appeared for class 12 exams. I, myself, out of curiosity, went to a few institutes on the pretext of getting some “counselling “ for my younger brother.
Hufff... It’s some task to listen to these counsellors speak incessantly until they have convinced you for the course that their institute coaches for. It is like going to buy a TV set where at every shop the picture quality of the set is tuned according to its profit margin. The merits of the course are exaggerated and the naiveté of the students is cashed into.
They seem to have forgotten that the job of a real counsellor is to gauge the aptitude of these children and then guide them accordingly for their future. ‘Their future’ as THEY WANT it. I really don’t know if there’s a single soul around most of these students who they can turn to, who is knowledgeable and keeps ‘THEIR’ aptitude and interests in mind while helping them make the right choice-a choice that is not guided by their own vested interests or market trends or practicality.
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