One of the most confusing times there has ever been throughout the decades of advancement mankind has passed through. Complicated with thousands of sophisticated technological breakthroughs and intermingled with the corruption inherited over the years, the modern world is a curious case. It has done what the past couldn't and has brought the unavoidable consequences along with it. Global warming, melting icecaps, rising sea levels, unexpected weather changes are just a few to be stated. Trust is one of the biggest issue there is right now. Trusting even your close one's have become a cautious action. But then again, historical anomalies like racism, caste systems, gender biasing have now become major hurdles we try to overcome everyday. In short, the modern world has made great advancements the past hadn't comprehended, but there still is a long path to travel before achieving what is required to reach perfection.
Now coming to the question in hand - how does education fare in this modern world of ours? Education is one of the basic pillars in the quest for knowledge I mentioned before. It is where we begin, and never end. We are educated all throughout our lifetime. Be it from our parents, our teacher, our friends or from the rest, education will persist in our daily lives through multiple medias. It is through which we are forged into a contributing member of the society. But does it live up with the changes that the population has undergone in the past? There's a two part answer to this. As we all know, education is meant to educate us. Which means it needs to provide us with the knowledge required to instill something new, and understandable. It has to be directed towards the particular field from which we choose to learn or choose to listen and acquire from. Has the modern education provided us with exactly that?
This is the first part of our answer. Partially yes. It has. It has evolved itself throughout the years of progression and has provided us with proper, accurate knowledge through various legitimate sources in the scientific and social fields. But there's still a lot it has to and can convey to us folks; of the past and future; of yesterday and tomorrow and most importantly of today.
To answer the second part, we have to think again as to whether we are educated well enough to withstand or empower the problems arising in our lives. The future is the problem we work for now. And that is where education needs to excel. It brings us tons of solutions to execute each day. It questions almost everything we stand for and answers everything we can stand for. But it hasn't yet answered the question of perfection.
Perfection is when we understand every aspect of a problem to completion and then can tend to it with full care and responsibility. And there is one simple fact that governs this theory - what is quantum physics to a child who aspires to be a journalist, and what is Journalism to a child who aspires to be a quantum physicist? It is the split of minds that changes the future. Every child, man and woman has his or her own aspirations. These aspirations arise due to certain inspirations and talents they discover, that can influence them to make it better and extend it further onto the palms of the world and convey us of its beauty.
This is where education has failed to keep up until now. It fails to recognize our capabilities and instead, riddles our mind with hundreds of thousands of time-consuming and un-useful subjects, refusing us to contribute in our own ways, and ultimately, almost always, managing to sway us off the path to perfection.
