The question, that we will most likely be asking, is ‘are we over-educated?’
I am trying to set up school pupils from all over the world to take part. So far, I have been talking to schools in Berlin, Cairo and Canada. Tomorrow, I will be concentrating on getting students in Africa and India.
http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/are-we-over-educated-2/#comment-171181
Comment:
By definition Education means to ‘cull out’ – that is to bring out the best in Man.
Are we doing this today?No.
How many new advancement in Scientific theories have been formulated on the scale of Aristotle, Pythagoras,Galileo,Newton, Edison Einstein et al?.
The last two were dismissed from school on the ground that they were very poor in studies.
So called formal education, which we have to day is nothing more than of cramming facts and make people know,not understand, what others have done.Nothing original comes out as a result.
At best, we are qualified to eke out a living ;definitely we are not educated by any stretch of imagination.
If we go by the definition of accumulating facts with out understanding and also being less than Humane, Yes, we are definitely over educated.