Sunday, May 2, 2010

Education always has long term impacts

"we all are related to education" - Sir Ken Robinson in this TED.com lecture said.

In one or the other way we in fact are related to education. And it goes much deeper, like religion, he said.

I form a part of education system and that is why my most of the blogs and comments are about education. Its true that talking about something like this is "boring". Too 'uncool'.

The one fact significantly ignored while talking about the education is that the impact of any change in policies or decisions ameliorating current methodology is long term. And unlike a corporate strategy that manipulates its pros and cons in term of profits quarterly or yearly basis, the changes made in education bring out the rewards after decades.
Take yourself for example. Our education was designed by educationists and approved by governments ruling a few decades ago. The future of next generations is in the hands of people who presently hold the same powers.