In a world where everyone seems to have an opinion, it looks like we sometimes overthink things and then we end up saying the wrong things or making the wrong deck one. Education in its raw form has been very beneficial to us humans from when it was introduced to us.
A few years ago I had the notion that formal education is basically a waste of time and we would be better off being trained in the fields that we want to venture into rather than wasting all those years learning theory work and getting trained for something that demands field practice. Now, I have a different idea and approach to what education is.
Last I was watching a podcast on television where the guest was asked to speak about financial freedom. While he was making his presentation he made a point that has stuck with me till now. He said, education is not a bad thing but the education we are having now is not solving the problems that we are facing now in this world.
He went on to say that, in the past the education system was made to solve those problems that they faced back then but as the world keeps evolving we tend to face different types of problems. We can set an example here using a programming language.
Back at the university, we were taught(introduced) to a lot of programming languages. Most of which were languages we shouldn’t have touched on but for knowing sake we just had to know about it. I didn’t have a problem when it was taught in comparative programming but then I lost it when we had to take assembly language programming language as a full course in class. During the course of our study, we later in found out that the programming language assembly is an outmoded type of programming which basically is going extinct.
Yes, I understand that in the past it was a programming language which was used to build projects and then also solve problems. But now those problems can be solved with other programming languages which are not easier to use and are even more sophisticated.
Those sophisticated programming languages are what people in the job space use to build projects for their clients. I don’t think in this modern day and age a client will require that you build a project with assembly language.
So why let us go through something like that? They let us go through all that simply because it is in the syllables. We are supposed to study it from when the course was introduced and since the course has not been reviewed we are left stranded to study an outmoded language which will probably have no positive impact on our lives till we are no more.
In conclusion, I don’t think education is a bad thing. I just think that the education we are receiving now is not what we need to be prepared. Yes, I can’t come out and just condemn what is being taught totally as some of the things are what we need but then most of them are things which should have been scrapped by now.