Why the education system doesn't help a person to identify his/her natural talent and be selfreliant?

Question

The western education model was designed to create supervisors and paper tigers loaded with too much of general knowledge which they can not apply in their life time. The first 21 years of your life is wasted without identifying and improving your natural talent to be selfreliant. A soccer player or singer should start honing the skills from age 6 onwards to make it at 18.

Sports and music are good examples. At 21 you got to be a star. This talent can not be acquired by reading loads of s***. University education kills innovation and freethinking. You reinvent the wheel during education and when you are ready to make the wheel, you find surplus wheels available for free.

By west, i mean British primarily.

Answer 1

I agree with Warren D & would like to add that the discovering of talent at a young age may be a good thing but focusing on only that one talent may not be. This depletes any other option (& freedom) the person may have had if they possessed a more standardized education. We don't know what may happen to this person in later years ...what if they became disabled in some way & could no longer perform the one job they were trained to do.

Answer 2

Not everyone is going to be a Beckham or an Aretha Franklin, that's why. Many kids want to be superstars, and could spent all their time learning one thing - but what happens to those lives then when they break a kneecap or never acquire range?

General education is there to make sure everyone has enough basic skills to survive in our society today. You cannot survive if you have only one talent. Even if you took specialty training, many professionals must expect to have more than one career in their lifetimes.

Classic examples are the ballet dancer, the gymnast, and the child actor. Often they spend their entire childhoods training, honing their skills, performing - and spend only the minimum on education. They forfeit much of their childhoods, and though many do enjoy the experience, many more are devastated when the 'career' ends at 26 and they have no other idea what to do.

They are essentially 'washed up' when they are barely adults.

If our entire society work this way, we'd be in serious trouble.

Answer 3

I commend you for your insight and wisdom. You are completely right. The education system is geared to make people learn what those in control feel is important and your individuality means nothing. So much wasted time and often the talent is not nurtured into what could have been. Best wishes.

Answer 4

This is the job of Parents to identify the talent of their children and put them in that line . The education system requires to be modified into two broad streams of Arts and science or there should be option in the school itself for opting to higher maths and science so that Arts students can clear school education with lower maths and science. It is more due to greediness and non understanding of children's taste by Parents which creates more problems.

Answer 5

Well, we could recognize strengths and cater to them, checking in at every step of the way. And nurture aptitudes. Unfortunately, unless you come from a wealthy and enlightened family, chances are, you will be given a median education...very general, and with luck, somewhere a long the way, you'll find a way to address your particular issue. All of this will become moot, once we become cyber-enhanced. Data will be accessed, joint processing, quick uploads, reflexive memory, uploaded personalities, parallel processing, shared senses, all of it. Once that threshold is passed, and we become cybernetically enhanced, then aptitudes will become everything. "The Borg wants you to play Violin. Just cuz you are good at it" :)

Answer 6

You are absolutely right. We should have teachers and career conusellors in the school level itself who will help in identifying ur real talent and ur aptitude so that u can choose urself the right career path for your better future. This question came to my mind too often and I think all the schools need to do some serious rethinking on this issue.

Answer 7

I accept with u. We know that we are being forced to study the courses even we don't like them till the age of 21. but ultimately when we expose to the outside world we get many ideas to pursue our career. Learning all subjects till the age of 21 leads us to confusion and we become isolated immediately, we compromise and we get adjusted. But we have to choose our life and career and infact our Parents should identify in which area we intrested and they should put us in the right path.

Answer 8

with the current educational system authority is the primary motivation for most teachers. believing that teaching is not possible until complete control is achieved they do not and will not treat students as equals. one method of achieving this superiority is to eliminate programs that enhance a students abilities to achieve any real satisfaction or motivation concerning multiple intelligences. a one size fits all mentallity eventually overruns the system and most student feel left out.

Answer 9

So?

It isn't rocket science. Education is designed to give you basic knowledge and skills. The development of talent and self reliance is up to you and to some extent your parents.

The education system was never intended to be what a lot of people want it to be. Stick to Readin' Ritin' and Rithmatic. (And spelling.)

Answer 10

Answer is very obvious. we remain as the copy masters only.we don't think of need based education.The govt.and the so called expert advisors of Govt. think in what direction only god knows.
Take the example of engineering , medical and pharmacy professional colleges, what is the fate of the stakeholders?there is no basic thinking about our needs/requirements,how can you think of selfreliant through education etc.