Career after Corona
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- What is Education?
- What is Educare?
- What is Culture?
What is education? It is of two types. The first type is collection of facts and knowledge about the external world, and sharing them with students. The second type is educare. Educare involves the deep understanding of the knowledge that springs from within and imparting it to students.
Both education and culture are important. Today’s education is devoid of culture and is like a counterfeit coin. Even a beggar does not accept a counterfeit coin.
Education without refinement is like a dark room. Only bats can live in dark rooms; such rooms are filthy. So, by pursuing such education devoid of culture, our hearts have become dark rooms and hence many animal qualities find their way into them.
What is culture? It is the cultivation of discrimination between good and evil, sin and merit, and truth and untruth that we experience in our daily life. It is also removal of one’s evil thoughts, feelings and qualities, and cultivation of good thoughts, feelings and qualities. Not only this, culture makes one broad-minded by getting rid of one’s narrow-mindedness.
How many books have we studied? How many subjects have I studied? How many degrees have we earned? How many languages have we studied? These are not important. Did we follow a single good habbit from our studies? Let us listen to the great story narrated to students by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba about Mansur and his strong faith on a single sentence “I am GOD”, he had learnt.
Great words of Mansur Al-Hallaj – Unself yourself!!
Reference
Study at your convenience
A modern student may study at his or her convenience.
A student can organise and attend online classes.
He can study alone in a room.
A student may use social network for his self paced study.
A student can study comforably on bed also.
You can have coffee and study.
But if you learn with your parents, you are blessed.
If you learn with a teacher you are doubly blessed.
If you learn how to study yourself, you become a real student.
If you teach others you are the best learner. Every teacher is God’s incarnation.
Never disrepect your studies or study materials by lying on down on a bed and read your core subjects like a lazy guy reading novel. If you are serious in studies you have to sit in proper position on a chair in front of a good study table.
You can alos sit on a floor with good writing pad.
You can also use a small sitting desk. Leade simple living and have high thinking.
In future, parents will avoid any big school and they will surely go in search of a good gurukulam where the students can experience the value of education for life and living together.
The Royal Heritage of India and Indian Educational values are inculcated in Germany.
Future Education
Highlights
- Personalized learning
- The role of a Mentor
- Delinking education from job
- Skill set based approach
- Free choices
- Project based education
- Block chain digital certificates
Personalized learning
Learning will be made self-paced. Classrooms will not be based on similar ages, rather, they will be based on similar achievements and skill sets. There will lot of worksheets. Above average students will get harder tasks and questions. Students will enjoy positive learning experience. Variety of study tools will be developed. Students will enjoy both elearning and conventional learning in a hybrid classroom. One can find both blackboard and digital TV in all classrooms.
The role of mentor
The family level mentor will greatly influence one’s career development. Parents will be influenced more by such local educationists and mentors. Like family doctor, every family will have family mentor (Kula Guru). Philanthropologists, educationists, subject matter experts, PhD degree holders will take active role in mentorships. Parents will believe schools, just for securing a certificate from the Government and will not encourage hereafter the so called hi-fi techno and branded schools who have heavily commercialized the schooling system currently. Parents will not believe in macro-learning process. They will give more weightage to micro-learning provided by the local private mentors. Individual transformations of their wards taking place in micro learning centres at the residence of their family mentor will be realized greatly by the parents.
Delinking education from job
Formal education helps students to explore higher studies and research. Those who are keen on securing job will be trained in the skill sets required for the chosen job. The selection criterion for a job will be based on skill set only and not on the degrees. Lot of skill schools will be developed to create employement opportunities. Professionals and experts will run such skill schools. Governments and companies will fund more on researches and conventional educations in Universities. The job seekers will not undergo Univeristy education. Most of the private Universities exploiting and misguiding the job seekers will vanish. People will not support such Universities. There will be three types of educational institutes in each country. One is School Boards to provide conventional education till STD 12. Second is University to promote researches. Third is Skill School to provide job opportunities.
Skill set based approach
More associations and certifiying systems will be introduced for developing skill sets among students irrespective of the age group. The skill sets will be matched with the nature of job and students will undergo flexible training in such skill schools. The vanishing skill sets such as carpentary, plumbing, wiring, tailoring, embroidery, housekeeping, painting, etch will be revived. Advanced techniquies and tools will be included in such basic skill set trainings. Onsite training, projects, practicals will be the major assessments to declare the competancy level of trainees. Skill set matrix will be implemented for rating the efficiency level achieved by a candidate.
Free choices
Free choices will be given to every learner viz., job or service opportunity, research opportunity and business opportunity. Only competent and interested candidates will undergo research. Job seekers should have skill school certificate with skill set rating or prove themselves with the required skill set to get a job. Pressures like entrance examinations for a particular course will be eliminated since only the interested candidates will explore higher education. Free choices based on the merit, skill set and interest will be given to students so that all present days’ illusion and misconcept of considering degrees as a bowl for job will get away.
Project based education
Project report and presentation will be the key assessment for certifying a candidate’s proficiency besides the other modes of test and measurements. Collective projects will be given in the lower level and individual project will be encouraged in the higher level. Onsite learning, field or in-plant training will be the key factor to evaluate the project report.
Block chain digital certificates
Government and private institutes promote block chain digital certificates. The employers and other clients will register for obtaining and verifying the proficiency certificates. The hard copies of certificates may vanish one day!! Government of India has introduced Digilocker services. This is one of the best initiatives of Digital India Programme.
Social Media and Education
Our people have already witnessed three explosions, viz., Atomic Explosion, Population Explosion, and Information (Technology) Explosion. Now, comes the fourth one, “SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOSION”.
Every ethical and professional expert is encountering with variety of attacks from his or her team members who are influenced by Social Media. A company director is unable to retain an employee; institutions loose even the subject matter experts and teachers because of their immoral influences through various social media misadventures; teachers find very difficult to control their class students who are always entangled to smartphones; spouses are struggling and separations occur more frequently because of misuse and overuse of social media.
Our students may write one day on the answersheet that if anyone has liked this answer do not forget to click the bell button!!
Everyone wants them to be liked by the whole world without knowing the underlying principle of their life as described in Theory of Everything!! The Biggest of big things and the Smallest of the small things behave alike!!
Anor anian Mahatho Mahiyaan
Bhagavat Gita
Every single fundamental particle is significant and it has its role either to generate or operate or destroy the assigned target in the Universe. Everyone in this world is the Greatest but the role given to everyone is unique!
No two electrons look alike!! Every electron is unique and is identified by its ID, the Quantum Number!!
Pauli Exclusion Principle
So, when everyone is so important to the society, should we need to wander for a pompous popularity? We should never surrender to ego eventhough we are surrounded by ego-inflators.
Sri Krishna lead great war, The Mahabharatha and made Pandavas win the battle, but was destined to death in the hands of a hunter!!
This world is so funny! Someone calls it Maya or illusion! Others may call Nature!!
Like what you do! Don’t do what you like!
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Let us like what we do and do not do whatever we like, because we are dictated by many wrong influences and external stimuli around us causing desire and danger.
தனி மரம் தோப்பாகாது!
Tamil Proverb – A single tree does not make an orchard.
Somebody prompts this Tamil proverb. Agreed! Overdoing is not fair.
Everyone is worried of too much uses of social media. Nobody demands to boycott social media.
We strongly recommend Social Media in Education to promote students’ creative learning ideas like concept maps, sketch notes, mind maps, topic trees, infographics, video presentations etch. Every online content can be created naturally with their own hands, pens, pencils and students should not be encouraged to copy paste like copy cats as most of the schools do in the name projects and power points. This bad practice started at the school level leads to plagiarism in PhD even in reputed University.
Reputation cannot be achieved by Repetition; it can be achieved only by innovation. That is the basic requirement of a Ph.D. Scholar!!
E. Ramanathn
I claim that I have coined these terms!! But who knows, someone might have also stated the same wordings!!
Now, let me declare that we strongly condemn the inclusion of social media in education. Let me explain why.
I have directed many years ago some animated educational contents and had been proud of the elearning advantages and claimed that “Our product can replace a real teacher in the classroom by our virtual teacher” , but later understood that no elearning content can match a good teacher with the following great mentoring qualities.
- Controller
- Assessor
- Corrector
- Resource
- Facilitator
- Expert
- Listner
- Guide
- Administrator
- Negotiator
- Participant
- Drill master
- Catalyst
- Actor
- Instructor
- Counsellor
Can you believe any social media or any elearning tool satisfy all these together? I wonder why these schools and some school teachers have the wrong tendency of forming groups and sending questions, assignments and notes through social media when plenty of time is available during school hours. Instead of creating tensions by sending questions and problems, the school teachers can promote their students’ original creations of educational contents. Should you invite 2D artist, 3D designer, sound engineer, machine learning experts, all these hi-fi guys to add on more values for a simple reaction, magnesium burns in air to become magnesium dioxide. The hi-fi gang creates a 3D arrow starting from Mg on firing on a big stove and producing splashing the entire lab with a white light in order to engage the student. But, our poor fellow will write magnesium oxide is prepared by keeping magnesium on a pan kept on stove and white light is produced on firing. Will any sane chemistry teacher provide marks for this answer without key words and equations? If a teacher wants everthing to visualize on screen, he or she damages the imagination of the student. Our students have already been reading Maths and Physical text books also like News Papers. We make them further lazy by encouraging stimulating animations and distracting videos.
Promote the Students’ Hand Made Creative Learning Stuff in the Social Media and encourage the parents to view and invite them to give votes and comments. That is the positive attitude. It developes competitive spirit among students. Parents should also avoid wasting time in forwarding useless messages, images, gifs, and videos. Let them pass on their wards’ creative academic work in their friends social network.
If you have any creative educational contents done by your sons or daughters with their own hand, we are pleased to post yours wards’ great contents and make you proud even your school fails and ignores!