Headline Feb 9th, 2012 / Education Prime Minister!

''Education Prime Minister!'' 

Respectful dedication Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Lets start with an obvious bitter truth: Almost every country's education contrasts wildly with the real-world needs. Most Engineering Universities educate well in the science underlying engineering, but engineering involves activities barely touched on in the classroom or laboratory: designing products and systems of quality that can be manufactured or implemented, and utilized in a cost effective way.

And what of return on invested capital, what of safety and environmental protection requirements??? Many, rather in the developing world, every single engineering graduate leaves college without ever realizing that such matters constitute the heart of their chosen profession. What is vital to understand is that ''A greater engineering'' needs to evolve.

Granted, that it would not be realistic to redefine engineering so that technical schools presume to teach every aspect of the complex process of exploiting technology, from the underlying science to economics, business management etc. The world is ever short on wisdom. For every problem that gets solved 3 new and complex ones loom. The world considered many options both strategic and tactical but all frittered away.

What mankind truly needs is a 'Education Prime Minister' to support and build education in all its phases. We need an Education Prime Minister to create massive public backing for educational reforms-every sector of society must call for change, and business must lead the way. He must pursue innovative approaches. He must focus his energies to educate his nation in the importance of education.

Should any Prime Minister attempt this philosophy and approach, he will find all problems melt and recede. Maybe what education really teaches is, how ignorant we all are! And how fearful we are likely to be as 'quality survival' pressure mounts.

All nations of the world will have to inevitably adjust to a more open world of education exchange, alliance and research. Dengue, aids should have taught us many lessons!!? But we are just so WOODEN. It seems that the promise of better life in the developing world, has a dark side: insecurity and loss of control.

Thats the Truth! A weary Goodnight.

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