Whose responsibility is Education?
How do you empower someone? Educate him. How do you enslave someone? Stop educating him.
With today, 24 of January 2020, being the International Day of Education, it gives us an opportunity to ponder who is actually responsible for education and learning.
Most people respond that it's the government's job to educate us and provide free schooling. Of course, we all want free schooling, but isn't every government strategically educating people to align with it's own political agenda? Can a government give objective training, looking past its selfish bureaucracy to focuse on the economic stability and development of the nation as a whole?
Goverment is centrally placed to analyse global and economic trends, and able to forecast the skills and educational needs of the country to align with these trends. With this information at their disposal, goverment should be involved in the advising and planning of the education direction, but do you think they should be in control of what or how we learn?
Business is the driving and stabilising force behind ever country, and dictate the skills of employees required in order for them to be successful. Should we leave our education and training in the hands of business, as they are the job providers anyway? Should we allow business to dictate and control our career paths?
Unfortunately, the turbulent relationship between employee and employer resulted in the later seeking alternate options to appointing people. Hello computers, robots and automation. Technology offers Business a "HR-friendlier" solution to rising employee costs and union interference.
As the use of technology increases in business, the South African goverment sees it good to do away with Mathematics and Science in school, so removing the very two subjects that prepare our children for a good financial future.
It seems goverment and business are divided about the best education development for economic progress? Doesn't a house divided against itself collapse?
A nation is like a baby, whose needs change as it grows and develops into an adult. The trick for the goverment, business and you (yes, you!) is to correctly identify and address the baby's changing needs as it matures.
The role of the individual citizen, you, is to find and own your future in the nation! To own your work development! Your responsibility TO YOURSELF and to your family, is to plan out your own career path, and to actively pursue your dreams in a way that contributes to the national growth.
A responsible leader doesn't wait for goverment schooling hand outs. The responsible leader isn't dependent on the psuedo-generosity of business to direct his or her career and life path.
On this International Day of Education, consider that the education provided can and will only be as good as the willingness of individual citizens to learn and empower themselves. The way to improve education is not by promoting studying, but by promoting self empowerment.
A responsible leader educates himself or herself, and in so doing empowers self to meet their obligation as a nation builder and a responsible citizen.
With today, 24 of January 2020, being the International Day of Education, it gives us an opportunity to ponder who is actually responsible for education and learning.
Most people respond that it's the government's job to educate us and provide free schooling. Of course, we all want free schooling, but isn't every government strategically educating people to align with it's own political agenda? Can a government give objective training, looking past its selfish bureaucracy to focuse on the economic stability and development of the nation as a whole?
Goverment is centrally placed to analyse global and economic trends, and able to forecast the skills and educational needs of the country to align with these trends. With this information at their disposal, goverment should be involved in the advising and planning of the education direction, but do you think they should be in control of what or how we learn?
Business is the driving and stabilising force behind ever country, and dictate the skills of employees required in order for them to be successful. Should we leave our education and training in the hands of business, as they are the job providers anyway? Should we allow business to dictate and control our career paths?
Unfortunately, the turbulent relationship between employee and employer resulted in the later seeking alternate options to appointing people. Hello computers, robots and automation. Technology offers Business a "HR-friendlier" solution to rising employee costs and union interference.
As the use of technology increases in business, the South African goverment sees it good to do away with Mathematics and Science in school, so removing the very two subjects that prepare our children for a good financial future.
It seems goverment and business are divided about the best education development for economic progress? Doesn't a house divided against itself collapse?
A nation is like a baby, whose needs change as it grows and develops into an adult. The trick for the goverment, business and you (yes, you!) is to correctly identify and address the baby's changing needs as it matures.
The role of the individual citizen, you, is to find and own your future in the nation! To own your work development! Your responsibility TO YOURSELF and to your family, is to plan out your own career path, and to actively pursue your dreams in a way that contributes to the national growth.
A responsible leader doesn't wait for goverment schooling hand outs. The responsible leader isn't dependent on the psuedo-generosity of business to direct his or her career and life path.
On this International Day of Education, consider that the education provided can and will only be as good as the willingness of individual citizens to learn and empower themselves. The way to improve education is not by promoting studying, but by promoting self empowerment.
A responsible leader educates himself or herself, and in so doing empowers self to meet their obligation as a nation builder and a responsible citizen.
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