The importance of higher education.

Imagine, you have just started walking 4kms a day and suddenly a professional athlete challenges you to compete with him in a 21 kms race. Will you be able to compete with him? Let's leave competition, even if you crawl, it will cost you an arm and a leg to reach the destination. You loose all the hopes when out of breath and sweat is all over your body, irrespective of the wax lyrical voices resounding around you, “come on....you can do it”. That time, inferiority complex will hurt your self esteem.
Who is more potent? Of course that professional athlete who has burnt the candles at both the ends to reach the paramount of success.
This lesson articulates us with the significant message i.e. it's better to make plans and work for it when you want to achieve something. One can't run 21 kms when he is a nyophite in walking.
Dilettantes often experience this type of shocks, while the veterans can get dejected but won't be afraid of challenges. No matter how strong the laymen is, but a graduate or professional possess a cornucopia knowledge in a specified subject.
People don't understand it's necessity in the current business world. These are some shocking figures of students pursuing 12th and higher education:
Approximately 1.43 crores candidates appear for 12th board examination in 2016-17 (it increases 5-10% every year). According to All India Survey in Higher Education (AISHE), the total candidates enrolled in colleges is 34.6 million (18.6 million boys and 16 million girls), which is almost 1/4th of the students enrolled in 12th boards. 

Banks are providing education loan, government is launching new universities for various sectors, private colleges are introducing versatile courses like BCA, BBA, BMS, MBA in healthcare, sports, international relations, petroleum and communication etc., and now economically weaker section's quota is also implemented. You can specialise in any field you want and there is no problem of funds. But encouraging candidates for pursuing higher education is still a challenge.
The area in which we are lagging behind is patience! Losing patience over money and pursuing job at the peak time of our education can be bogged down into the conundrum. Money entraps one in the net of greediness and dissuades to go for higher education. And child marriage is the another obstacle, still prominent among the conservative Indians. Apart from this, voluntary restrictions to education, lifting the responsibility of family business or HUF, and baseless superstitions of conservative society could be another reason.
Graduation makes you wiser and maturer as you start exploring the practical world in the propinquity of pedagogues by going into the depth of a subject in which you want to  specialise. You won't be nurtured with proper counselling while going for job just after completing 12th. UG and PG courses builds oneself to expand his horizon and seek higher placement packages and standard of living. Mark Twain (American writer) rightly quoted higher education as: Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.