Professional crisis in the humanist world
It is actual fact, that humanist professions are very profitable today. Since childhood a lot of young people believe this work to be very absorbing. With such an opinion they are educated in their families, go to school, to a university and after all they begin educating their own children that way. Deadlock.
Why is it so? What do make people think that technological sciences have lost their popularity?
There are several causes.
First of all modern technology achieved such a high degree of progress that society is capable of using it without having special technological skill. Consequently there is no need for further dissemination of technological education. Humanits use begins prevailing in all aspects of life.
Secondly it is an well known fact that we live in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They like to depict the world around and use things, but not to produce something by themselves. Of course this fact does not influence positively on spreading of technological knowledge. People are simply not interested in it.
In the third place is the fact that the resource base has got such a degree of desolation that we frequently have no place for work after studying the theory.
at last a very important thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it popularize as asked-for nowadays? We can easily learn it by analyzing our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what specialities do they promote now? It is easy to prove that they are full of non-technical images. Mass-media display us easy life in which there is no place for hard-work, but there are a lot of talks, beautiful scenes and fantasies.
What do we have as a in the issue?
Lack of qualified workers in the technical sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a jointer planer. This will lead to a difficult situation when we will be lacking very simple things which are very important for our comfortable way of living.
Besides that our education system is totally ruined. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no experienced lecturers able to educate adequate personnel working in technical spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our country do in order to correct the condition? it is clear that there are several actions to be taken. firstly our state should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. education system should do its best in order to promote technological specialities in mass-media.
And of course, the best way to preserve engineering specialities is to assign enough means both for the payment for the people who work in this sphere and to the creating an adequate resource base.