Dmitry Linkov

Education in the new World

July 31st, 2006. Published under General. 1 Comment.

Just finished reading the Free Agent Nation by Dan Pink. I got a few thoughts about education system that I want to share with you.

Dan writes about home education, about traditional education system crisis etc. In Russia there is one more problem. Our economy is growing and we have all the problems connected with it – bureaucracy, fake documents, super low and super high salaries and much more. Today you can just go and buy diploma. More money you will pay, the better diploma you will get. While learning, you will meet quiet a lot of professors that can accept payments for passing exams. Nothing criminal – professors also need money to live (and salaries are super low for them). So what we see – a lot of people with good diplomas that in fact don’t know a lot.

These people come to companies and show their diplomas, but after a short period of time companies realize that “this guy is simply stupid”. So the diploma now is just a paper, that often shows nothing to the companies. You need something more to proof, that you know certain things.

One more thought. We need people who will teach us to reason. We study economics, management and whole bunch of things, but rarely someone teaches us to reason in this fields. This is especially important in such fields as management and everything connected to it, because this sciences are still young and they will only develop in future.