Yapper on Nostr: "MASS EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIALISATION" “On the topic of education, there are people ...

"MASS EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIALISATION"

“On the topic of education, there are people who say that, 'We need mass education to industrialise so we can get a few people in technical positions such as engineering etc.' What they don't realize is that they're assuming that theoretical knowledge is usually applied at job positions. In a lot of cases even in professional positions such as accounting and even programming, you usually don't really apply the theoretical knowledge you have that much. In fact many uni students have forgotten the technical knowledge they had before after they've been involved in jobs that haven't reinforced the remembrance of such technical knowledge. In other words, what you've ended up with an excess supply of 'qualified' people who don't have the practical skills and who don't what they did in even high school. Looking at the jobs of today, even people in elementary school are capable of doing the jobs that many adults are doing now. Even in the technical positions, a lot of employers do actually train their employees. Therefore the utility of mass worldly education is in question. Some traditionalists have compared modern schools to what prussia did where they believed modern schools are training camps of state-loyalists. Some others argue that modern schools are training children to become loyal workers. Yet in the case of modern schools this isn't even the case where teachers are attacked by the children and modern schools are actually training children to become researchers or professors rather than someone who works at engineering or some applied field where modern schools focuses a lot on the theoretical knowledge. So the argument that you need mass education to get into highly technical positions isn't entirely accurate. Now this isn't to say that 'theoretical knowledge is useless', you do need know basic arithmetic, literacy etc. Now some are saying, 'What do you suggest?'. There are multiples things that have been suggested by other people which are the following: make sure young children have basic level of education (basic arithmetic, basic literacy and basic general knowledge), privatize schools (Even in south korea, people pay high amount of tuitions fees meaning there are parents willing to pay their child's education), encourage a certificate system of different levels (which could involve exemptions of exams for those who left a specific level of schooling such as high school etc), change the perception towards universities from being associated with STEM jobs towards it being more associated with intellectualism and research, encourage and improve the reputation of trade schools.”