if career orientation is not the objective of modern education,then what is it?

Question

goals of modern education and why is career orientation not helpful to shape up ourr careers?

Answer 1

In an indirect way, it includes career orientation, in that an education is designed to train you to think, and to provide you with skills, which will be useful in the job market. However, it is usually not job training, in that in our fast-moving world most people will change careers, let alone jobs, many times, and you don't want to be so specific that they would have to repeat their educations each time. That is why an education should train you to think, make decisions, use both quantitative and qualitative skills, communicate, understand other people and adapt to change, rather than saying that you should be able to calculate a particular formula or perform a particular task.

Answer 2

Colleges and universities are more interested in money these days. So career orientation is not in their bests financial interests. Rather than have students concentrate on what will make them successful in their chosen careers, they make you take all kinds of courses that have nothing to do with your major. Like philosophy, etc.