Chapter 2
Education Systems produces glorified clerks
Times have changed.
Societies across the globe have come closer to each other. Growth of science and advancements in technology made that possible.
All over the globe, nations and individuals compete with each other. This makes it impossible for societies to remain static. Society need to be dynamic to remain competitive. This is possible only when the members of society are both skilled and learning enabled.
Powerful societies have individuals in them have higher levels of knowledge and good at physical tasks. Isreal is an example.
In our foregoing discussion, we found that the schools away from homes, imparted domain independent knowledge mainly the ability to Learn.
Our education system appear to address both types of knowledge in one go - domain specific and domain independent - but sadly, does not succeed in both.
Reasons that our society lagging behind many:
Societies are classified today as per their economic strength. The economic strength stems from scientific knowledge and technological advancement in that society.
Research Institutes that deliver nothing:
We have several government funded research institutions (both State and Central) which produces nothing but fancy reports year after year. Such institutions have no accountability to the investment made from tax payer money. The only exception is Indian Space Research Organisation.
The universities delivering glorified clerks:
The universities, dime a dozen, produces glorified clerks who are neither capable of providing solutions nor contribute to technological feats.
In short we are producing lowly skilled clerks at a huge public exchequer.
We seek to hire people for high public offices for our society based on the higher education imparted in our universities.
We figure it out they are just no good for any of the task that the nation is in need of. At best, we produce, in our education system, clerks. Dignified clerks.
The good thing about Clerks are that neither they are required to think nor expected to have learning abilities. One can see a clerk in every top rung of our society instead of solution providers.
The result is that there is an ever increasing gap between the poor and rich. Never before there was so much of unrest among people. Anti-social activities and terrorism on the rise.