Education System Idea
March 13, 2012 at 9:39 pm (Uncategorized) (archive, articles, business, bussiness, change, culture, curriculum, education, marketing, medicine, misc, miscellaneous, musings, opinion, other, post, posts, psychology, random, random stuff, research, school, science, social, thoughts, work, workforce, world)
Education today is still designed for a world in which all human intellectual development could, with the right effort, be understood in a lifetime.
That not being the case, we see lots of people paying a lot of time and money into their education, only to meet a market that is not interested in those skills – which is no wonder, given the large population of people with the same skills.
Maybe schools, universities especially, should start thinking of starting to offer a problem-based curriculum.
To give an example, there are millions of people suffering of Alzheimer’s disease. Thus, schools should offer a complete education on Alzheimer’s disease. What i mean by that is, like today’s “Medical School” there could be a “Alzheimer’s Disease Curriculum”.
As opposed to just training regular doctors, this kind of education could be cheaper to provide and easier to master. It would also give one the advantage in actually knowing a topic, instead of the jack-of-all-trades kind of medical training that is popular today, and is increasingly redundant with the patient being more and more informed.
Apart of being cheaper for schools to provide, it would be faster to finish (one could choose another topic if he was so inclined or in case the market should vanish; as is often the case today); there would only be a small amount of people with the same skills in the market, and thus they would be sought after.
The education would be goal oriented, thus faster development would be seen in areas where there are lots of patients – thus the “demand” would actually help fuel development in the area – towards the possible cures for the diseases! The most complicated diseases would also be desirable areas of study, since they would suggest a safe, long-term employment environment.
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