Professional problems today
It is well known fact, that humanist professions are very profitable nowadays. Since school a lot of people believe this work to be very promising. With such an point of view they are educated in their families, go to school, to a university and after all they begin rearing their own children that way. Blind alley.
Why is it so? What do make people think that technological sciences have lost their significance?
There are several motives.
first present machinery reached such a high degree of growth that society is capable of running it without having special technical skill. thereby there is no need for subsequent spreading of technical skill. Humanits use starts prevailing in all fields of life.
second it is an actual fact that we exist in the consumer society. People in it don’t want to work with their hands. They prefer to depict the world around and consume products, but not to produce something by themselves. Of course this phenomenon does not affect positively on diffusion of technical education. People are simply not interested in it.
In the third place is the fact that the resource base has reached such a level of desolation that we frequently have no place for work after studying the theory.
at last a very major thing is the policy of the government. What professions does it consider as asked-for nowadays? We can easily find out it by researching our mass-media. The internet, the television, the radio, the press – what professions do they promote now? It is easy to prove that they are full of humanist images. Mass-media display us pleasant, nice 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 after all?
Lack of expert workers in the technological sphere. There are a lot of philosophers, lawyers, artists, singers, politicians, professors but a few people, able to operate for example a huge jointer planer. This will cause a perilous 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 destroyed. There is no technical literature of high quality – it is either sold or lost. There is no qualified teachers able to educate adequate personnel working in non-humanist spheres.
Such is the picture. Sad, isn’t it?
Then, there is an adequate question: what should our state do in order to improve the condition? I think that there are several actions to be taken. First of all our country should change its attitude towards technical professions and specialities and theirs future. Then our country should apply efforts 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.