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So hey guys.
I'm a second year student a good business school, and lately I've been having a lot of reflexions about the whole educational system on the world.
In ancient times, education wasn't really necessary, the people who trying to study or to be more precise, trying to gain knowledge, did it only because they want to. There was even people who were travelling far away to get knowledge, that shows that they want to learn, they do it because they like it.
Today, you HAVE to study, it is an obligation, you don't have the choice. Well, I don't object to that, but somehow, I think we're making children hating EDUCATION. I'm pretty sure, that the majority of students now, keep studying just to have enough diplomas to have a decent life.
Also, I've remarked that education lacks something really important, more important than even language : Ethics. School makes you learn about Maths, Physics, Biology... But not Ethics. A man without Ethics, is not a man no matter how much you're brilliant in Maths or any other field. You can be genius, but if you still steal and do shit, then you've learned nothing.
I think that somehow, we lost track of what education is supposed to be, it is supposed to make a human being.
Do you think Ethics should be a priority over all the other subjects in schools ?
That's the first thing.
Second thing, I'm studying economic theories, Statistics, Probability... And seriously, I'm asking myself a question : Will I ever use all this " stuff " in my professional life ? I mean, why the hell I'm studying mathematics, while when I'm gonna work, it won't do me good.
I'm talking especially about business schools (not mentioning Medicine or anything else), because 90% of the stuff I'm studying is a PURE THEORY. There's nothing practical.
Medicine for example, they have theory but most of all, it's about practice. Same about agricultural institutes...
Do you think, that quantitative science (to be more precise, mathematics) should stay away from economics ?
I'm a second year student a good business school, and lately I've been having a lot of reflexions about the whole educational system on the world.
In ancient times, education wasn't really necessary, the people who trying to study or to be more precise, trying to gain knowledge, did it only because they want to. There was even people who were travelling far away to get knowledge, that shows that they want to learn, they do it because they like it.
Today, you HAVE to study, it is an obligation, you don't have the choice. Well, I don't object to that, but somehow, I think we're making children hating EDUCATION. I'm pretty sure, that the majority of students now, keep studying just to have enough diplomas to have a decent life.
Also, I've remarked that education lacks something really important, more important than even language : Ethics. School makes you learn about Maths, Physics, Biology... But not Ethics. A man without Ethics, is not a man no matter how much you're brilliant in Maths or any other field. You can be genius, but if you still steal and do shit, then you've learned nothing.
I think that somehow, we lost track of what education is supposed to be, it is supposed to make a human being.
Do you think Ethics should be a priority over all the other subjects in schools ?
That's the first thing.
Second thing, I'm studying economic theories, Statistics, Probability... And seriously, I'm asking myself a question : Will I ever use all this " stuff " in my professional life ? I mean, why the hell I'm studying mathematics, while when I'm gonna work, it won't do me good.
I'm talking especially about business schools (not mentioning Medicine or anything else), because 90% of the stuff I'm studying is a PURE THEORY. There's nothing practical.
Medicine for example, they have theory but most of all, it's about practice. Same about agricultural institutes...
Do you think, that quantitative science (to be more precise, mathematics) should stay away from economics ?