DEATH OF EDUCATION AND THE CRUDE WAYS IN IMPARTING VALUES AND KNOWLEDGE

DR. RAJU M. MATHEW

150 YEAR OLD LEGACY

The existing education system has been evolved through the last 150 years mainly for creating clerks and technicians besides some teachers, priests and artists. To spread literacy and 3 Rs among the common people, education was made open to the masses.

Imparting values and knowledge has been recognised as the basic function of education. In spite of the heavy governmental expenditure and spectacular growth of education as a means for lively hood of millions of teachers and the supporting staff and making profit for private investors, education is getting worse and exposing its failure in imparting values and knowledge.
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ANGRY YOUTH AND WOMEN

Nobody is happy with Education, except those who deliver it. The Global Economic Crisis and the subsequent Angry Youth and Women Revolts, in the west and east, are the indications of the failure of Education to impart the Right Values and Knowledge or Skill or Expertise at affordable rate. UNESCO, originally established to extend education, science and culture to the masses, is a big failure in these three crucial matters, for its wrong philosophy and methodology. Same is the case with UNDP, World Bank, OECD and others on matters of Education.

CRUDE AND UNSCIENTIFIC

Education, starting from Kindergarten to University, is time consuming and very much labor and capital intensive. The existing education systems are founded on the crude, primitive and unscientific tribal values and principles. If we make a comparison between the time, money and tension invested on a high school or university student and the total values and knowledge that he or she is capable of putting into application after leaving the school or the university, we can calculate the wastage and failure of Education. If we add the drop out rates, the per cent age of failures, minimum pass or higher grades or the top ranks or grades, the wastage of education can be made more crystal clear. But nobody is bothered about it. Even Information Technology or Smart Schools or Universities do not have any solution other than some unfounded claims or projections having some advertisement value just like some beauty soaps or creams that never make anybody beautiful!

LESS THAN 5% SOCIAL RETURN

The actual return of Education to the entire humanity is less than 5% and the waste of education is about 95%. However, Education has grown into an Industry and Profit making enterprise for the private investors. The basic questions are: Does the humanity as a whole need to spend such a huge capital, time and efforts or strain for such an unproductive education, just for the propaganda of those who deliver education? What is the actual knowledge or values that it delivers to the society? People, especially the Youth and Women all over the world are getting aware of the failure of Education and the liability that it has created on the future. This is the beginning of the end or death of Education for they have been fooling the people or the society at large.

VALUES, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION

It is high time to critically examine, how effectively do schools or universities deliver Values and Culture or at least Knowledge and knowledge- related Skills, Expertise, Problem-Solving and Knowledge Application Capabilities? In reality, schools and universities act as a safety valve to control or limit the flow or accessibility of Knowledge to the society. They are denying the accessibility and free flow of knowledge or expertise to the entire humanity for their rigid structures and procedures besides their primitive tribal values that attribute divinity to knowledge and consequently, knowledge is meant only for the chosen few.

DOCTORS WITHOUT EXPERTISE

Even when illiteracy reigns in primitive societies, there were scholars or teachers or poets among illiterate who could transfer knowledge verbally. Most of the scriptures were in verse that people can store in their memory and recall them easily and sometimes with their own interpretations. Even in modern society, we can find less educated or drop out with the ability to innovate, problem solving and setting up enterprises. At the same time, there are Doctors or Ph. Ds without much knowledge or expertise.

FROM TRIBALISM TO HUMANISM

It is high time to liberate Education Schools and Universities from the Primitive Tribal Values that deny knowledge to all, treating knowledge as divine and meant for the chosen few. Chosen few is the creation of the Primitive Tribal God who treats some tribes as his beloved ones and the others his enemies to be destroyed. It is high time to put Humanism as the core of Education for ensuring free accessibility and application of knowledge for the entire humanity, treating knowledge as a product for mass production, delivery and consumption. The God of the Humanity treats everybody chosen or beloved and not limited to any particular tribe or race or man and his children.

KNOWLEDGE FOR THE MASSES

Knowledge, though intangible, can be treated as a product of the human brain and a commodity for mass consumption and production without any divinity. Then, accessibility and application of knowledge become the basic human right. Knowledge Production and Consumption are mutually related. Mathews Theories of Knowledge Consumption and Production provide methodological tools to treat knowledge as a commodity for mass production, delivery and consumption. It is the basis of Knowmatics and Knowledge Industry.

EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY

It is wrong to treat Education as a part of Knowledge Industry. In stead, Education can be revolutionized with Knowledge Industry that ensures mass production and marketing of knowledge products or services even globally. With Knowmatics based Knowledge Industry, Live Knowledge Banks and Mega Knowledge corporations can be set up to make knowledge, including values and culture accessible to all and facilitate greater application of Knowledge that too with one fifth time, effort and money at ten fold efficiency. These issues and possibilities have already been discussed and they can be found in the net in the form of power point or video presentations under Dr. Raju M. Mathew or Knowmatics or Knowledge Industry.