Hii guys here again .Was thinking about which topic to discuss today and a thought about the current education system popped in my head .
The problems in the current education system:
1)The education system is archaic
As we all are already aware but we do not try to face the truth ,our education system is archaic. It was designed during the industrial revolution and was built for that time(when a lot of labor and machine knowledge was required) but it is not for the 21st century. The most important subject are science, math and languages but dance and 🎶 music are at the very bottom.
This type of education was maybe necessary during the Industrial revolution but not now! For some reason designer's , dancers as well as artist are look down upon in comparison with engineers and doctors.
2)Most of the knowledge is not utilized in the future
It is not a secret that we use only a small part of what we learn at school in real life. Most people spend 12-13 years before they get a specialization degree and then again they spend their time studying at University. We study so many details but never get the big picture about life. It is inexcusable to have such little knowledge and skills. I am currently studying software engineering here too we learn so deep in math that we probably never even get close to applying any of it in our life.
There is an alternative ,where students think critically and analyze the information rather than studying it from books and write exams based on how much they remember. Whereas analyzing what they learn would give them an "application" perspective ,where they try to apply what they are learning in real life.
3)The wrong mindsets are being developed into students
Our education system is based on assigning ranks to everything. We are thought that all our life is a race to getting a good job. Education system ranks both us and itself at every chance it gets in order to let us know that most of us are unsuccessful and not part of the top. The current education system measures success based on how far along the path we are at but it should be based on what how you discovered a new path or how has he/ she had come to this far in the path.
Some successful people who didn't go to school:
✔️Thomas Edison (inventor - dropped out of high school)
✔️Andrew Jackson (US president - dropped out of high school)
✔️Robert De Niro (actor )
✔️Albert Einstein (physicist)
✔️Steve Jobs (entrepreneur)
✔️Bill Gates (entrepreneur)
The current system brainwashes us to think that life is that we should conform rather than innovate.
4)Ones size never fits all
Our education system is based on the idea that every one thinks the same way. We have known for decades that everyone thinks differently . There is no doubt each of us is unique but our school fails to take that into account. When a student has a unique talent it's not given importance too and instead bombarded with a lol of useless information.
Each of us is different and we all require different potion of skills but all that uniqueness is just being suppressed by the cram school curriculum.
We need to have more flexible curriculum where its based on applying what we learn and doing more practical tasks.
There are more problems such as grading, giving value to dry knowledge etc. But this is my perspective there are good sides to it too but according to me there is more they need to improve at. Lemme know your thoughts on the current education system in the comments^^.