Education
Lot of times I wonder if education really helps a person think better or it is just an excuse for a person incapable of working to take up a cushy job with a fat pay. While I do agree that at one point of time intelligent and capable people did take up work in the education sector for a higher ideal, I dont think their ideal actually helped anybody really use what they taught. Maybe it had some inspirational value for some high achievers who were inspired to try something in some area which they never thought of before in the hope that they could actually achieve something and then worked towards achieving it with their own efforts. Anyway after getting "educated" people forget whatever they "learnt" and then settle into thinking in the ways they were always thinking and get tuned to doing their jobs optimally with whatever they learn on their job.
Consequently, this whole funda of skilling and higher end jobs seems really shady to me and in todays world I think it is just an excuse for a bunch of ppl to form a cartel and mint tonnes of money without the pressure to know the nuances of whatever they are talking about, the pressure to deliver results and without the pressure to keep learning or optimizing or learning new things unlike in industry.
Come to think of it, I think the job of a prof is a really easy one. All that a guy has to do is take down notes of whatever was taught to him when he went through the course, probably memorize it and like a tape recorder, repeat things every year(provided he takes the same course year after year). Maybe to help him, he could even note down the doubts asked by his classmates to the prof and the answers given by the prof to those doubts. Probably he could also note down the questions asked in the tests and the correction patterns for 3 or 4 years. This would reduce his load of taking a course as and when he becomes a prof by I guess at least 70 to 80 %. And added to that, a cool life of just 3 or 4 hours of classes a week which even with original effort would not result in more than 12 hours of work a week(compare that to 40 hours minimum in industry. In the case of hopeless industries like software I guess the number would easily reach 55 hours for the programmers). Taking these into account, I guess teaching only deserves to be a low paying profession and it is only incapable people who would be doing teaching whether it is in colleges or in the HR depts of various companies. If they are actually capable of doing something, then they would definitely not have any problem in earning more by doing consultancy work. And doing the consultancy work would probably help them also know how much they didnt know and maybe strengthen their knowledge of the nuances of whatever they teach.
Lot of times I wonder if education really helps a person think better or it is just an excuse for a person incapable of working to take up a cushy job with a fat pay. While I do agree that at one point of time intelligent and capable people did take up work in the education sector for a higher ideal, I dont think their ideal actually helped anybody really use what they taught. Maybe it had some inspirational value for some high achievers who were inspired to try something in some area which they never thought of before in the hope that they could actually achieve something and then worked towards achieving it with their own efforts. Anyway after getting "educated" people forget whatever they "learnt" and then settle into thinking in the ways they were always thinking and get tuned to doing their jobs optimally with whatever they learn on their job.
Consequently, this whole funda of skilling and higher end jobs seems really shady to me and in todays world I think it is just an excuse for a bunch of ppl to form a cartel and mint tonnes of money without the pressure to know the nuances of whatever they are talking about, the pressure to deliver results and without the pressure to keep learning or optimizing or learning new things unlike in industry.
Come to think of it, I think the job of a prof is a really easy one. All that a guy has to do is take down notes of whatever was taught to him when he went through the course, probably memorize it and like a tape recorder, repeat things every year(provided he takes the same course year after year). Maybe to help him, he could even note down the doubts asked by his classmates to the prof and the answers given by the prof to those doubts. Probably he could also note down the questions asked in the tests and the correction patterns for 3 or 4 years. This would reduce his load of taking a course as and when he becomes a prof by I guess at least 70 to 80 %. And added to that, a cool life of just 3 or 4 hours of classes a week which even with original effort would not result in more than 12 hours of work a week(compare that to 40 hours minimum in industry. In the case of hopeless industries like software I guess the number would easily reach 55 hours for the programmers). Taking these into account, I guess teaching only deserves to be a low paying profession and it is only incapable people who would be doing teaching whether it is in colleges or in the HR depts of various companies. If they are actually capable of doing something, then they would definitely not have any problem in earning more by doing consultancy work. And doing the consultancy work would probably help them also know how much they didnt know and maybe strengthen their knowledge of the nuances of whatever they teach.
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