Uneducated Triumph

There was this engineer who has 15 years of experience in project developments. He is extremely skilled and experienced as well as innovative in his design of custom built machines for various clients.

There was one of worker, a Bangladeshi, who is involved in building control boxes for machines. He taught that Bangladeshi how to built the control boxes according to the designs and arrangements. He showed how to fit the parts and that guy remembered them very well.

For the next weeks, he completed assembling 40 units of those control boxes. The engineer random checked a few of those boxes and was extremely impressed. He was very impressed that this Bangladeshi could produce such high quality work. All the control boxes were flawless and error-free. On top of that, the craftsmanship was very good. He was all praises with that Bangladeshi.

Until one day, he asked the guy,

“Mahon, measure the length of the piece of metal and give it to me.”

He got the measurement and realized that it was the wrong measurement. Clearly, the engineer was very angry. The Bangladeshi worker could not provide the correct measurement though it is a simple job. So, the worker got the scolding.

Then, the engineer was talking to another veteran worker of his company,

“Habibur, that Mahon fellow you have to teach him properly. He can’t even make simply measurements. Does he even know how to make measurements?”

“No,”Habibur said. “That guy can’t even read one, two, three.”

The engineer was stunned. He couldn’t believe the fact. So, he approached Mahon and wrote number ‘1,2,3.’

“Mahon, can you read these numbers?”

The Bangladeshi worker shake his head.

This man could produce very good craftsmanship could not even read simple numbers. He can’t even read his own native language. Yet, he is very intelligent and manage to produce high-quality craftsmanship.

This is not an extraordinary case. To the engineer, this is a norm. Virtually all his Bangladeshi workers are unable to read anything. Only the extreme minority are able to read.

This is a haunting truth for educated young people who bemoans a lot of petty things such as hair, pimples, tanned skin, girl/boyfriend problems etc. The young lads today used to complaining small details that didn’t even matter. Graduates from Malaysia many are educated, yet having attitude problems, thinking problems and are unemployable.

Let’s take a look at Mahon and reflect ourselves. He is one of the millions of Bangladeshi labour who came to Malaysia to seek more money. In their own country, they can’t afford education. These people, who lived in villages, started working at the age of 5.

Now, though he is uneducated and can’t even read, Mahon could produce high-quality craftsmanship, able to understand and adapt the machinery parts according to plans and analysis by himself, very quick to learn new things and practice them effectively, and unfortunately unable to voice his dissatisfaction simply because this is not his land. He is at no position to voice out.

He, along with other skilled but uneducated foreign workers, put a shame to many young generations who are educated yet not effective, still being spoon-fed by their parents. Some even save their part-time ‘promoter’ money to buy expensive phones and clothes to show off to their peers to be ‘hip’ and ín the trend’. For any little thing, they would bemoan. At the end of the day, they didn’t do anything impactful.

Start to feel humiliated. Start to reflect yourselves and compare your situation with Mahon. If Mahon is well educated, today he owns a multi-billion dollar business owner, or a pilot, or a professional engineer. He worked hard and triumphed over his hard-ship. What can you do if your situation suddenly changes into his.

Now stop moan and get rid of your laziness. Get up and start working hard for your future.

Message from the smartest human being on the flat surface of the earth who is trying to make the earth round.