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
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