Technical problems in the modern world
It is actual fact, that humanist occupations are very profitable nowadays. Since school a lot of people suppose this profession to be very absorbing. With such an opinion they are educated in their families, go to school, to a university and at last they begin educating their own children that way. Deadlock.
Why is it so? What do make people think that manual operations have lost their importance?
There are several causes.
First of all present machinery reached such a high level of progress that the majority of people is capable of running it without having specialized technical skill. So there is no point for further dissemination of technical skill. Humanits application begins dominating in all aspects of life.
Secondly it is an well known fact that we are in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They want to explain the world around and consume things, but not to produce something by themselves. Of course this phenomenon does not influence positively on diffusion of technological education. People are simply not interested in it.
In the third place is the fact that the resource base has got such a degree of desolation that we frequently have no place for work after learning the theory.
Finally a very important thing is the policy of the state. What professions does it suppose as asked-for today? We can easily get to know it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what professions do they popularize today? It is easy to prove that they are full of non-technical images. Mass-media display us easy way of life in which there is no place for hard-work, but there are a lot of talks, beautiful scenes and fantasies.
What do we have as a result?
Lack of trained workers in the technical sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a complicated jointer planer. This will cause a dangerous situation when we will be needing very simple things which are very important for our comfortable way of living.
Besides that our education system is totally destroyed. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no experienced lecturers able to educate adequate personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our society do in order to improve the state? It seems to me that there are several actions to be taken. firstly our education system should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs perspectives. education system should apply efforts in order to promote technical professions in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to save technological specialities is to assign enough means both for the payment for the people who work in this sphere and to the creating an adequate resource base.