RE: Musing Posts
1. The university system is designed to attractis chalk/market and board so bad.....
For me the problem lies in higher education and not so much with th primary education. I won't so that the primary education or even the secondary education is not without problems. The school system has its set of problems but I have noticed that more to do with interpersonal policies and less with the education itself.
It is actually the higher education or the university education that is the problem that needs to be immediately dealt with. Perhaps the rules of triage applies here too. We need to first deal with the most critical problem.
The fact is that university education is multi billion dollar industry that is rotten to its bones. Most of the students never ever work in the field that they study in nor the courses they taught hold relevance to their future profession.
The inertia and this resistance to change emerges from many places. Here are a few of them:
1. The university system is designed to attract with a promise of future. Delivering on the promise of education is secondary
2. The university management is made up of old academicians that are uot of touch of the modern context of education.
3. The scientific community is more worried about accolades than true education
4. While a school teacher stands for his the whole day and teaches class after class, the university professor get one or maybe two lectures a day and teaches for only two or three days a week.
A system that is run my lazy men and women is very difficult to change
You have a good point there..
Every part of education was built
for a purpose, to serve an idea.
Primary gives kids the basic skills they need to begin to relate with the world we've built, sorta like learning our language .. The alphabet, the numbers we use .. etc ..and then they teach em how to manipulate these alphabets and numbers to do different things ..
this gives them the gateway into understanding the rest of our our world. All the stuff we're gonna teach em for the rest of education depends on this foundation (very crucial, doesn't meet disruption)
Secondary school is where we introduce them to more and more ways to manipulate those basic numbers and Alphabets (languages we represent things with here on earth) to do waaaay more than just basic things,
this is advanced manipulation of those representational languages we're teaching them and ways to use them for a ton of functions in the flow of daily life on ze planet.
Then we also want to give general knowledge, about everything, expand their database.. Biology, Physics and all its laws, chemistry, and tons of stuff
(Also crucial, doesn't need much change .. probably some additions but overall its on the right track)
The secondary education teaches the kids what we gave em those foundation languages for, the alphabet and numbers .. it teaches em the advanced manipulation of those languages .. the advanced ways we manipulate them to do the more complex things in our lives.
Like say in primary school you were taught to write, nd then how to write a sentence. In secondary they then build on those two to teach you how to use complex blocks of sentences to achieve an aim for example a letter or a story or a poem or a report.. Its about advanced ways to manipulate those languages (alphabets and numbers) to do many of the things in our lives.
Then it also teaches em about the system theyre in (the planet earth) nd the laws that guide the behavior of the system they're in (physics, chemistry, biology, geography)
And also General knowledge... it aims to stack up a mini library of information up there that you can count on to navigate your world.
(These purposes are also crucial and dont need to be disrupted, they might need additions but not much disruption)
But the University is where there's an issue ..
Its purpose was supposed to be .. preparing kids for choosing what path in life they wanna take .. and this is where there is an issue .. this is where the mess is ..
There's so much more to live for than a Job now, and that was what it was optimised to prepare people for.... . its not that its outdated, its only that it was always limiting, we never realized it because the world was also limited .. until there became so much more to live for than jobs (now its become obvious that our school system isn't optimsed to prepare us for the so much more to live for)
And what our kids are desperately screaming for is that we expand it and let it prepare them for that more