Is Your Education Job Security?

Is Your Education Job Security?

"Did You Know 2.0"

Did you know education was never intended to be solely used for capital gains; financial reward is a bi-product of education but never was intended to be the final goal. Doctors played a practical purpose in a community to help people that were sick; lawyers were needed to settle practical arguments over property and civil rights, and their education provided a skill set that filled a void within the community serving the other citizens and assisting and sustaining the whole. A vast majority of Education in America has shifted its focus from serving the community to serving the individual's financial dreams. It seems we are no longer thinking about going to school to cure cancer or develop affordable health care for all Americans but thinking about what profession pays the highest salary; it seems we think in terms of what kind of living do I want if the pay grade of a teacher does not allow for that type of living we move on to another that does. I am the prime example of this, I started out wanting to be a minister but it did not pay enough so I rationalized that I could serve people in another public capacity, politics and law. My real motive was the pretige and salary that came with being a lawyer not to mention the house and how much more attractive I thought I would be to women with this title, lawyer. The simple lifesyle and living of a minister was not going to pay for ski trips and SUV's but the more important problem is it would not provide financial security and comfort. These things in themself are not bad but they are when they become the goal and not the bi-product. Maybe that is why China and England have surpassed America in college graduates, maybe financial progression is not enough motivation to provide the resiliency to graduate compared to a student that is solely focused on developing technology that will benefit the other communities.

Education's sole purpose of a should never be salary, a big home, four kids and 2.3 dogs whole people in our community, nation and world have needs that are not being met. It should be the impetus of all college students that have the ability, resources and opportunity to get an education to use it to tackle and conquer a problem facing humanity. A survey was done in a sixth grade class in South Africa asking students what they would do if they had the opportunity to get an education, read their answers and compare them with your educational goals.

If you haven't got the picture yet then check out this video from a college professor expostulating about what education is and what education is for.

http://richrice.com/4360/wong.mov

Well, what do you think? Is your job going to be a necessity in ten years or will it be non-existent? What do you think about education, does this make you consider what the goal of your education should be. Think about it, you could conquer world hunger, find a way to educate even the slowest mentally handicap students, develop a way to provide clean water in countries that have none, cure cancer, cure AIDS, develop better pedagogical techniques that will prepare our future students to lead our nation... The options are limitless, the possibilities are growing along with the problems that we will face as a nation, a world and as a human-race in the future.