Education equals to opportunity

Recently I came across a text in which Queen Rania of Jordan referred to 'education' as being equal to 'opportunity' because education creates the opportunity to work, to escape poverty, to live healthily, to live confidently. But a question arises, what type of education would help a person achieve the opportunity to work and escape poverty? Of course elementary basic education is indispensable for children. But doubts shadow our thoughts when comes the issue of higher education, particularly for the people of those countries where unemployment, poverty, economic insufficiency is widespread. Take Bangladesh for example which has a high population with limited land and resources. Is it appropriate for this nation to produce general graduates with advanced university degrees? I think we need profession-based skill development and technical education. We have a huge workforce working in garment industries but in most cases, they are not very skilled. In fact, our manpower has the potential to access the opportunity to earn, to get rid of poverty if they could be provided with appropriate technical education just after SSC.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka