Topic: Education seems to have failed in some developing country - page 8. (Read 2704 times)

In this situation not only the school that failed but the parents fails as well, why should they hold they government or school been responsible for the educational progress of their wards when they have the first role to play there as parents, some parents were do lazy that they never bother to check their children's school bag, books not to talk of taking them on little extra morals, they have failed right from home, we've got children performing well within the locale they were being brought up and have gone upwards to an international level in education just because of their outstanding performance right from the start, it's an abomination to be born poor and die poor, parents should encourage their children, no destiny is limited to a particular location except if vision is being lacked.

Generally education has not failed anyone and it’s always on the plus side to have an education. Education is supposed to open one’s mind; to enlighten him on things he never knew and it’s always good to learn new things. What one does with the things learnt is left to the individual.
The reason education seem to have failed in some so called developing countries is simply the lack of funding and oversight by the relevant authorities. The education system in these areas lack the proper facilities and equipment needed to properly impact knowledge on young minds.

Education doesn't give skills. What education give is knowledge and awareness. Skills are something your self develops or gets through your personal sense and essential thinking and understanding. This is the reason why people like Kiyosaki believe education to be a scam. 

Yes, graduates need to make use of their skills instead of thinking of getting a barely available job.

In the united states, its culturally glorified to be a low income thug. Drug dealers and pimps are put on pedestals.

Our cultural values are directly opposed to education, learning and knowledge. That's what prevents us from wanting to learn and know things.

If people want education to thrive. They have to put people like Elon Musk on a pedestal. Build a culture that respects intelligence, science and knowledge.

Throwing money at education will never have a legitimate effect. As long as our culture opposes basic practices like reading and learning.

Schools failed in my opinion because they didn't even teach the students to differentiate what is knowledge and education which are not entirely same and education is not only enough to get job. Going to school and getting a degree never guaranteed a job but upto 80s and 90s the ratio of people getting graduated are very less so all people get their job but today the scenario is not same.

This is very clear, generally we all know in that case, education is only a means of knowledge that must be owned by every student while in education, the certificate is only a symbol of graduation from the school, it does not mean that the certificate is a guarantee of work.

I have a friend who didn't study and he doesn't have a certificate like most other people have, but he is now a successful and rich person, thanks to the knowledge and experience he has developed in the crypto world, especially trading and investment, so here education can be judged only as a symbol, the expertise we have is actually the essence of true success.

Many people think after education and have a certificate they can get a job, it's actually a dead end, but there are those who think education is a formality for the world but they still believe in the knowledge they learn, now we see many uneducated users succeed in crypto, for example: Uneducated people join Cryptocurrency?

Yeah eventhough it doesn't guarantee us immediate jobs but still we really need this because we can learn more things aside from getting job, it's up for the person on how he can use what he learn from schools either he use his diploma to became modern slave or he use what he learn to create something useful ideas which can create jobs.

But seriously educational system especially on third world countries need to be taken care off since the current mindset of young adults is to graduate and get job then in reality they will fall in line with others who are seeking jobs to that's why maybe this is the reason why the  number of unemployed person increase.

You are right, we cannot blame parents when educating their children to be successful in school. Because now the situation is no longer the same. If we compare the past success of the parents, it is truly amazing and their upbringing is right where they push their children to be much better than them. Because parents often finish their education up to college. Economic factors are still being colonized and most of them finished elementary school and did not go on to college. In the past, there was no technology as sophisticated as this in finding information.

While technology is now easily accessible, knowledge can be searched using keywords on Google and you just need to be willing to learn. Meanwhile, their ancestors had to be willing to walk thousands of kilometers just to get an education.

Those thoughts come from our forefathers like our grandparents or our parents, because most of the successful and powerful people in the old days were mostly highly educated people and they came out from famous schools. Today, everything has changed, it can be said that we do not need to graduate or get a certificate to get a job. But education is still very, very necessary, education is an essential foundation, without education we cannot achieve any achievements in later life.

Education is nothing if you are not using it, or if you are just using it to bad things. There's a lot of educated individual and yet they choose to be on that situation and I guess this is beyond the control of the government already because seriously, there's a lot of available job in my country but you can see people not applying for a job and they choose to be jobless. Education doesn't end with the certificate or any diploma, you should continue improving yourself because the only way to survive is to keep updated and that can only achieve by learning everyday.

Most graduates waste some of the opportunities that come their way because many graduates have one or two opportunities to learn some very important skills that may be their path to success after school, but they relent and keep saying the government can support them by providing them with jobs after school, which is not true; the government cannot afford to provide a job for all of the thousands of graduates each year.

This is very important advice; many successful people are self-employed and end up helping the government to reduce the rate of unemployed graduates; they achieve this by simply learning some important skills such as web design, programming, and so on, and most of them work from the comfort of their own homes.
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We all know that education differs from country to country, but in my country kids in first grade must already know how count, substract, read and write. They obtain these skills in kindergarten and "obligatory preparation to school". When I was attempting school, we learned that all that during first and second grades. We have 9-12 year school education. And I cant imagine what they gonna learn during all that time, when minimum basics they get before school, and the rest can be taught at home or by educational videos. I see education in my country as a failure, as kids waste 2-5 years there.

Actually once in a while the educational method by way of memorization is not a problem and that's also good,
but it would be better if it focused on critical thinking and taught at an early age I think it will be good for children's development,
maybe in order to be accountable it is better to do research which model or method is good

In life, there are no guarantees. It's like you play dice in a casino and you picked the 90% win rate probability. So is it a guarantee that you can win? Of course not. The same with education, it cannot guarantee jobs that people are longing for but educated people are still favorites to get the job rather than those not educated at all.

I do not understand what is OP looking for. Do people need to stop going to school because education isn't guaranteed to land jobs?

Sometimes overpopulation and lack of decent jobs and a poor economy are the reason behind unemployment. I knew some Nigerians had great jobs in other countries. The same in my country, there are a lot of our people working abroad for greener pastures.

Regarding the "School gives certificate but doesn't guarantee a job." part, it depends. There are some rare instances where people are picking a student by a company and then put him/her into a high standard school and then after graduation, they will hire the graduated student to their company. In that scenario, the job already is guaranteed but it is a rare scenario and I know some of the graduates where they don't have a job especially during pandemic.

Education never fails. It's just that, teachers are giving information and knowledge that will not shape the student in the future. I mean there are some schools who are teaching their students some knowledge but, in the end, they will not use these knowledges when they will apply for a job. We are living near the school, and I often see what these teachers are teaching and TBH, it's the basic ones that they don't need in the future. The current education curriculum in our school is already outdated and it must be updated to a point where a student increases its chance of getting a job after getting graduated. Well, it's their plan at first place that's why they added 2 school years in the Secondary level, but it failed miserably.

Utilizing skills really is the key in getting a job. Finding your passion and making it use it to earn money is a big thing after graduation. I know some people who really is knowledgeable, but they don't have the skills that will help them find a job and I've seen some of my classmates as well who aren't that intelligent but skillful and they are the ones who has a stable job right now.

But this thought should be removed for the sake of equal rights, especially for companies that consider education as the first requirement of workers. In fact, there are many non-academic knowledge people with more experience and some achieving success their way.
Honestly, I prefer the freelancer way of hiring because experience is a priority request.

In addition to the old model like that which will last for years, I think there will also be a new model that is applied to learning or a certain level of education by following the times. Because if you only rely on old methods or old learning models, then there will be no new improvement in education if there is no special adjustment to the times.
As in the example of market-oriented specialization, which is actually really needed by everyone in order to support good economics for everyone.

In most countries, the education model is focused on memorization. In other words, critical thinking or even a market-oriented specialization is not addressed. In some places this is already changing, but I believe that this model will last for many years.

Education is considered our first successful achievement before getting our own dream job. However, with newly graduates that are not equipped with skills but only pure knowledge, they will surely find it hard to land a good job since the company owners would want skillful workers rather than just being only knowledgeable. But even so, those educated and knowledgeable people have still brighter future compared to poor and illiterate ones.

Education does not guarantee someone gets a job. Many successful people have low educational backgrounds. A person's success depends on the effort and view of the future and how he tries.
Education is only to provide a way for people to be educated, teach people to be wiser and smarter to deal with increasingly sophisticated technological developments so that people are not outdated.