Educational situation modern Russia
It is actual fact, that humanist occupations are very profitable today. Since school a lot of young people believe such profession to be very promising. With such an impression they are educated in their families, go to high school, to a institute and at last they begin bringing up their own children that way. Cul-de-sac.
Why is it so? What do make people think that technological sciences have lost their popularity?
There are several reasons.
First of all modern engineering has got such a high degree of development that society is capable of running it without having specialized technical education. Consequently there is no point for further diffusion of technological knowledge. Humanits use begins dominating in all aspects of life.
Secondly it is an well known fact that we exist in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They want to depict the world around and consume products, but not to make something by themselves. Of course this phenomenon does not affect positively on diffusion of technical education. People are simply not concerned with it.
Thirdly the resource base has reached such a level of devastation that we frequently have no place for work after studying the theory.
at last a very major thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it consider as asked-for nowadays? We can easily get to know it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what specialities do they promote today? It is easy to prove that they are full of humanist images. Mass-media present us easy 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 competent workers in the technological sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a jointer planer. This will lead to a perilous situation when we will be lacking very simple things which are very important for our comfortable way of living.
Besides that our education system is totally ruined. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no experienced teachers able to train worthy personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our country do in order to correct the condition? It seems to me that there are several actions to be taken. First of all our education system should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. state should apply efforts in order to promote technical professions in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to save technological professions 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.