Quote from: franky1 on Today at 01:02:52 PM

having skill/education is important for development.. EG building, creating, repairing things
but skill is not important for economic growth in many cases..

so its not so much about general education and skill. its about the right skill for the right need of the area. we see many many universities offering education in many mundane and unneeded courses for an area. whereby many people get degree's but then end up working in walmart because there are no jobs for them

Universities have to revisit and review their education curriculum and do away with many of the mundane disciplines they are seriously equipping this generation with. The world has advanced and what do not serve the present state of advancements in this world should be cut out of the education system.

Much of why we still have the mundane skills and discipline having a place in the universities education of this time is because when these mundane skills/disciplines are abolished from the university curriculum it also affects the educators in those field who have refused or failed to upgrade to the latest skills of today. And since this is what goes, they preach and sell out those skills like they are still useful when it is not.