STUDY BASED ON INTEREST

Have you ever watched ‘3 Idiots’? Do you remember Farhan? ‘3 Idiots’ is a film from bollywood which told about Three Indian students who study in Imperial College of Engineering (ICE). They are Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi) and Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chhanchad (Aamir Khan). Farhan is studying engineering to pursue his father's wishes over his own wish — to become a wildlife photographer. Raju is studying to get his family out of poverty. On the other hand, Rancho studies for his simple passion in machines. Rancho believes that one should follow excellence, not success, as success will take care of itself if excellence is followed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots)

During their studying, Rancho always gets good scores because he interested in machine very much, so he dedicates his life for everything related to machine. On the other hand Farhan and Raju are the always in the bottom of the score list because Farhan learns something that actually he doesn’t like because his soul is actually in photographer, not machine, and Raju is someone who full of hesitancy. Actually this only a film in which maybe many people don’t believe in the whole action done by the actors. But if people pay attention to this film carefully, there is much knowledge and experience can be taken. In this article, I want to discuss about the knowledge I get from this film the is about the choice of field to study in which anybody needs to choose field of study based on their interesting, not because of their parents’ wishes as done by Farhan in that film.

Taking a field of study based on interesting is very important for students to master the subject easily. It is because they will dedicate their whole life to what they learn so they will try to find the solution for all problems they found in the process of their studying without any compulsion from anybody else. They will aware by themselves to do their responsibility as students because they feel that their subject is their life. They will not satisfy if cannot solve the problem completely. This condition can be seen in the personality of Rancho in the film above. It is not hard for him to every problem related to machine because it is his soul. He can finish the remote controlled helicopter designed by Joy Lobo his senior easily because he likes machine very much so it is an interesting thing for him even though for other people it is a very hard job.

On the other hand, for those who take a field for studying not because they interested in that field, will be difficult for them to solve the problems they found. It is because they study in that field but their soul is not there. Their souls are the place where they interested in. this condition can be seen in the personality of Farhan which is told in the film above. Farhan takes engineering as his field of study not because of his wishes, but because of his father’s wishes him to be an engineer. It caused him not focus in his studying because his soul is not in machine. He mostly does anything related to the photography of wildlife because he wishes to be a photographer of wildlife. Besides failed in machine, he also almost lost his interested thing. Fortunately he met Rancho who guide him back to his willingness and help him to explain to his father about his willingness.

After watching this film, I guess that many failures faced the students in their studying is not absolutely because of their laziness or folly, but it mostly because of the wrong field of study they choose. Many parents are very clever in looking at the opportunity for getting job, so they ask their children to take the field of study based the most needed without thinking about the ability and the willingness of their children. Taking a field of study based on the opportunity in the field is not wrong, but the ability and the wishes of someone must be given the most priority. Mistaken in choosing field of study have bad impacts for the students in develop their knowledge. Moreover many of them cannot continue their studying because they don’t like what they learn. What they learn is different from what in their heart. It will make them not enjoy with the lessons they learn and they decided to stop.

I think it is very important for parents to pay attention to their children development, in which looking carefully about what their children interested in mostly so they don’t make mistakes in choosing field of study for them. It is better if the children are given opportunity to decide their own field of study and the parents just support them. About their job in the next, I think if they master their field very well as a result of their desire to that field, it is not hard for them to find any job. Moreover they can create jobs related to their ability in their field not only for themselves, but also for the other people have related field of study.

I think let the children to make their own choice in take their field of study based on what they interested in will give them more feeling to responsible about the field the choose in which they have no reason to blame other people such as parents and so on if they find problems in their studying because it is their own choice. It will make them try more to find the solution of that problem. Automatically they don’t abandon to solve it because it is their willingness. It is something that will give them feeling of satisfying if they can find the problem. Also they will face the problem happily because they enjoy with it.

At the end of this article, I would like to invite all of us, whether the parents, children as students, and the other people who involve in education to take appropriate field of study. What I mean here is the field of study chosen needs to something that the students interested in because it will help them to develop well in their studying. Lets learn more from the personality of Rancho which is told in the 3 idiots film.