Education… Where do our kids go from here... ?

Good old days, kids were born, parents and society were core contributors to how a child evolved over ages to get them prepared for life.

Then some philosophical parents realized that people with wisdom should depart knowledge than a common man, Gurukul should be the right way, because a child's mind has to evolve and it should not be limited to the challenges of few specific family members. But this resulted in kids disrespecting their parents experience completely.

Then some folks found it offensive to clean vessels of gurus and prepare for life, few others found that good gurus were not in reachable range, so the system of school evolved to prepare kids for life with a common decorum. This resulted in kids disrespecting people of wisdom completely, the teacher. And this was the start of a great mistake, where people were forced to believe knowledge exists only in books.

But over years, life appeared to be a survivable area, but job opportunities were vast and complicated, so it was required to learn towards the field of employment. So Colleges came up to prepare kids for jobs. This resulted in people only limiting wisdom to specific area of scope. Hence many ignored dedication to early education. They believed college only matters.

Then over competitive and whining parents felt school is not good, we need more to get kids ready for this world, so we enforced them into tons of private tuitions. This resulted in parents presuming their kids never do enough. And kids believing more on others than on self. 

Then once that was not enough, we brought all these online platforms to further educate beyond, school, tuitions and college. Kids felt it's never worth reaching out to parents or gurus, they always will force to do something more and it broke the bridge between kids and rest of the world. And the capacity to socialize and communicate eradicated.

But that too was not enough, now we realize neither college, nor school or the private tuitions can prepare a kid for life / employment. So we need to bring another medium to get prepared for Job - Job Training and Interview Platforms.

So the question is where do we go from here, we definitely will complete the circle some day. But by the time WW3 will be at our doors and we will not be ready for the job yet. But we will move on, without thinking where the actual problem is?

• Is it our mistake in understanding what should education comprise of?
• Do we really need an industry called Education?

Do we really need more mediums and platforms for learning, or do we really need to fix existing system in place?

An education system that started with blend of practical, mental and logical strengthening of an intellectual, has transformed into an education system that is more theoretical and restricted to books, and have lost the touch towards reasoning, practical and mental strengthening that leads to kids overloaded with knowledge, but lack the capacity to make decisions and are unable to pressure from day today challenges and are over stressed even before they complete their education.

Where are our kids heading to?