Why Are Scholar Systems Failing Rapidly?
I know the basics and have not been explicitly educated on how scholar systems work. However, I spend some time at a local university as a lecturer.
I am very educated in system theory and can compare systems on the process, approach, and other levels.
If we compare two standard systems, which are everyday parts of our lives, legal and scholarly, we can notice problems with too many simple things which cannot be implemented in both systems.
The result is almost idiotic people finishing school young without basic ideas about how things work. As I have been part of the high education system since recently (and the primary reason I left is written in the first sentence of this paragraph)
The Legal systems of different countries are just that. Different. Albeit, they are designed to be acceptable in ninety percent of cases. The other ten percent is collateral damage, which we call “injustice.” For that reason, there are multiple instances of courts solving a particular ten percent analyzing case by case so the legal system can be applied without or with more negligible collateral damage. It takes some time, but legal systems work in the end. The only prerequisite is a functional society and governing system in the country. I will not analyze dysfunctional and highly corrupted countries. This is thematic in itself; I might analyze it further in the future, again on the system level.
The scholar systems are also different. One particular thing in their functionality is the plasticity of each of them.
The typical country has a differently implemented one of existing governance systems, including a governor, king, president, or prime minister; a government with ministers of their departments (usually called ministries) and a sort of parliament. One of the ministries is (typically) in charge of the scholar system.
There is a “but.”
The government (in a holistic way) works every day and creates different sets of laws (and underlying documents) to lead the country. For example, my government made a law some time ago that introduced EUR and replaced local currency. There was only ONE law for that and a lot of different regulations based on particular rules; four months before starting using EUR instead of local currency, all stores (both physical and Internet) were obligated to use two prices for goods they are selling; one in local currency and one in EUR calculated on strictly defined exchange rate. Everything went well without a flaw. Some minor mistakes were there, but almost all were caused by human error in stores.
All processes should work that way on the government level.
However, ministries in charge of schooling people usually can not implement such things. There is a variety of reasons, but some stand up.
- the incompetence of people
- in such ministries is usually sinecures where no one is working
- and there is a lack of agility
Reasons one and two are typical for all government institutions.
Reason three is separated in every way. They do not act in any manner on changes in society proactively or reactively. This is the main reason for creating stupid people and generating a society without critical or developing thinking.
Let us take some examples of that. On one social network (Tik Tok), people exchange challenges that might end with injuries or death. What government should do? It is straightforward. The first step is a massive fine for the owner of the platform and, after the second or third case, the banning of the medium itself. Super simple.
This is just the basic stuff.
Some countries legally allow private universities and schools. Some of them do not have them. There is a reason. Public schools and universities are so good that no one would attend such schools. In other countries, private universities are highly accepted (in my country, for example) as the only prerequisite to finishing school is — money. If you pay scholarship, you will complete your schooling and get a diploma.
What differentiates public universities and private ones is their curriculums. As I read many of them, I can give a score of 7 out of 10 for public universities (*some might be better; I did not read all of them), but in private universities, they can get a score of 1 out of ten. What they are learning there is total nonsense and crap.
One step further. Who is in charge of the schooling system? The government, with their Ministry of Schooling (or however it is called in different countries). Okay. Superfine. But as the establishment may have experts for the economy, agriculture, army, and so on, why are no experts in charge of schooling? There are some, but the environment changed significantly in the last twenty years. These people must be used and educated to create plans, ideas, or whatever is needed to react promptly and immediately. I understand that creating a schooling plan in the sixties or seventies was a work that introduced and implemented the curriculums and other documents to format the direction of schooling.
That not works these days. Almost every aspect of ruling the country is adapting to new circumstances but this particular one. This is not purposely, but they don’t know how to do that as we are now overwhelmed with people with MBA in their signature (by the way MBA in Europe costs more or less 500 USD, and you don’t even have to visit the institution that issues the diploma; I am not kidding).
Okay, we have what we have. Everything can change. I am not willing to take this role on myself (I am paying other people to do that through different taxes and other financial obligations), and I am not ready to just put away my career.
In the end, identifying the root cause of that is simple. What was supposed to be an “information superhighway” turned into something strange, evil, and full of false information and idiot content. Very simple.
What failed?
Family upbringing.
I am the proud father of eight years old daughter. She reads books, paints, writes, and walks with me around. She got zero interest in digital social networking. Why is that so? Because I have zero personal interest in that (but medium.com and on a research level), her mother is the same.
