Educational crisis today
It is actual fact, that humanist professions are very profitable today. Since school a lot of young people suppose this profession to be very absorbing. With such an opinion they are brought up in their families, go to school, to a university and finally they begin rearing their own children that way. Cul-de-sac.
Why is it so? What do make people think that manual operations have lost their importance?
There are several motives.
First of all present machinery has got such a high degree of growth that the majority of people is capable of using it without having special technological knowledge. thereby there is no sense for subsequent diffusion of engineering skill. Humanits use begins prevailing in all fields of life.
Secondly it is an well known fact that we live in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They prefer to describe everything and use things, but not to make something by themselves. Naturally this phenomenon does not influence positively on dissemination of technological education. People are simply not interested in it.
In the third place is the fact that the resource base has got such a level of desolation that we often have no place for work after studying the theory.
Finally a very major thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it consider as needed today? We can easily get to know it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what professions do they popularize today? It is easy to prove that they are full of humanist images. Mass-media display us easy way of life in which there is no place for hard-work, but there are a lot of talks, beautiful scenes and fantasies.
What do we have as a in the issue?
Lack of qualified workers in the technological sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a huge jointer planer. This will cause a problem situation when we will be needing very simple things which are very important for our comfortable existence.
Besides that our education system is totally ruined. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no experienced lecturers able to educate worthy personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our country do in order to improve the situation? It seems to me that there are several actions to be taken. First of all our state should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. education system should apply efforts in order to promote technical professions in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to preserve engineering professions is to assign enough means both for the payment for the people who work in this sphere and to the creating an adequate resource base.