The greatest loss in education isn’t a bad grade.
The greatest loss is when a young person stops being curious.
Students begin their studies full of energy, with ideas, ambition, talent, and a healthy sense that something great lies ahead of them.
Perhaps that is precisely where the greatest responsibility of higher education lies.
Not just to impart knowledge.
But to preserve that enthusiasm.
To teach them to ask questions, not just to memorize answers.
A professor should be someone students think with, rather than someone in whose presence they remain silent.
Passing an exam should not be the ultimate goal of a course.
Earning a degree should not be the ultimate goal of higher education.
Society doesn’t need young people who have simply fulfilled their obligations for four years.
We need people who will know how to use what they have learned after they graduate.
People who will have enough knowledge to make decisions, enough self-confidence to take on responsibility, and enough curiosity to keep learning even when there are no longer professors to grade them.
So the question is not just:
What are we preparing students for?
The question is also:
What kind of people do we want our graduates to be?
That is precisely why I find the direction taken by the “Eduka” Faculty of Organizational Studies in Belgrade so interesting.
An education that seeks to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and real life, work, and future careers deserves attention.
After all, a good institution of higher education should do more than help you earn a degree.
It should help you discover what you can do with the knowledge behind it.
"Eduka" Faculty of Organizational Studies https://foseduka.edu.rs/
Reshid Dervishi