Do you think Education in the 21st Century will solve unemployment problem? »
Posted By WikiMap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsThe recent economic crisis has caused peoples and nations to reevaluate priorities and seek better ways to be prepared for future downturns. The foremost among these concerns is education. With the drastic rise in unemployment worldwide, leaders and academics are coming to the realization that the education systems of their nations need to be updated and reformed for a global economy.
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crespi5 months, 2 weeks ago
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We tried "dumbing down" in the 1990's and ended up being manipulated by "secret meetings" between government and corporations that were supposed to be public, international arms dealers that sold to both sides, and Fundamentalist anti-science, gay-hating, armageddonist Christians, all pushing the American people around.
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This new batch of young people DOESN'T think "knowledge is stupid" and we are already a better country for it.
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Charlson5 months, 2 weeks ago
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There will always be unemployment as long as humans exist. The trick is to keep it as low as possible. There will always be those who won't work. That is the condition of man (and woman).
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Education provides you the opportunity to develop intellectual skills and knowledge that an employer values and is willing to pay more in salary for. Education provides an individual the opportunity to make more money or move up in society but isn't the panacea for unemployment.-
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Desdamona5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Education also leads to innovation, the creation of new business new ideas and therefor jobs. When unemployment is high those with education are left the task of being creative they have the minds to make something out of nothing now they just have to get out there and do it.
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Wolfie20075 months, 2 weeks ago
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Unemployment right now is the result of the government taking taking money and resources from the private sector. Education can solve much of the unemployment problem if people can be trained for the technological jobs that there are now available and those that will become available in the future. To fill these jobs an applicant will not be able to start in at the ground floor and expect to be trained on the job. The question is will eduction in the 21st Century solve unemployment problems. Most likely it won't unless major changes are made in our education system.
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wolfie:
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I'll take common sense and an understanding of things over pure education anytime.
I've seen many educated idiots who could not figure out the simple things in life.
Education has not made the CEO's and business men capable of solving the problems. In fact I would dare say that the more they try the worse they do.
I know that God blesses men and women with certain gifts. Some are wise in certain things and others are mechanically inclined. Neither is more important than the other. Yet man has based wages on how he feels compensation should be awarded. And of course those who believe intellect is the highest gift feel they should be held in the highest esteem.
Those who are heartless and able to be cruel see themselves as managers when in reality they are slave drivers.
Nahhhhh !!!!! Man continues down a path of blindness. He doesn't see the truth for the truth is not what is wanted.
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reallypsst5 months, 2 weeks ago
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All nations have unemployment and their advancement in education has not helped at all,the fact is there are only a limited number of jobs open and the high tech careers are also very few compared to the mass of qualified applicants,therefore education is only part of the problem,and our technology in automated systems also contribute to this,the question we all should be asking is why in this day and age do we still have this.It seems that our governments political direction now determines our financial well being !
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Klarissa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Education - I think that it teaches you how to find information on subjects that you did not learn about in school.
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It should teach you how to process new information, and to decide when there is enough information available to make a decision. -
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Klarissa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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bansalr:"Unemployment is the given problem of the capitalist system"
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In East Germany they were employed alright, by the government, to sit around and do nothing.
It didn't matter how well you did your job, everyone got the same pay.
Do you think that, for example, a new worthwhile invention, should not be rewarded?
You get a job sweeping the streets, and you sweep, while the others watch, this is employment?? -
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Hahahahahaaahaaa !!!
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Unemployment is a created situation. It is not based on a persons education. If it were only those with the highest education would be employed.
Greed creates unemployment, poor business plans create unemployment, failure to see the reasons for unemployment create higher unemployment.
When the gain of wealth is the motive for creating things, there will always be unemployed. Now I'm not saying one should not be financially rewarded for their efforts, of course they should. Otherwise we would have nothing being done.
But the financial reward should be secondary to the fact that a man or woman is helping others to live and support their families.
I think we have lost or disregarded the the good that comes from helping to make others lives better. I truly believe that those who seek financial rewards over everything else are never really happy. Because greed is never satisfied, it always wants more.
We are destroying the planet and it's natural resources with our "educated" people who cannot see the simple fact that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We have to think beyond personal gain for ourselves only.
A global economy is only a way to control the world and allocate limited resources where the few choose to. Life is an education. -
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stafsp5 months, 2 weeks ago
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You can have all the education you can get.
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If there are no jobs. You, will still be out of work.
With all the jobs that are now gone. And new worker looking
jobs daily. It might takes many years to catch up, if ever.
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lloydm655 months, 2 weeks ago
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Unemployment can be a great thing unemploy Obama today,then Tuesday,after Memorial day put any street person in the oval office with only one duty,to keep Bidden in indoors.It wouldn't hurt to isolate the treasury secretary,until the unemployment rate is down 5.4%.
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undrgrndgirl5 months, 2 weeks ago
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in a word, no, education will not solve employment problems...nor will technology...in fact, technology is a CAUSE of unemployment...the more automated our society the fewer humans needed to do the jobs...the advent of the tractor is an oft ignored contributor to the great depression...a single farmer could plow 10s to 100s of times more land than he could with a horse, so fewer people were needed to work the land, leaving many unemployed...same thing is happening now in manufacturing - and will also happen eventually with service and information - funny isn't it, the more of us there are, the fewer are actually needed.
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ndbrooks127790505 months, 2 weeks ago
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The only way changing education will improve the employment problem will be if they make it easier to obtain, and lower the requirements of college jobs. The modern educational system is totally outdated and hasn't been adapted for the advances in information technology. Making people waste years of their lives learning things they'll never use again, or things they could learn in a matter of weeks, for a job they could have done before they went to school with a few weeks worth of dedicated training is simply inefficient. At the moment, education is simply a means to employment and nothing more.
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CaptainLucid5 months, 2 weeks ago
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We need to completely rethink the economy. What does a job mean and why should a person do it. Why should a robot not do repetitive labor instead of a person getting repetitive motion injuries? If productivity goes up 50% how about shave those 2 of 8 hours off the work day so they can spend more time with their family. In central and northern Europe everyone gets a month of paid vacation.
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frctm55 months, 2 weeks ago
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Finland, zero poverty, zero illiteracy. Norway and Sweden are very educated and wealthy countries as well. They all have high taxes and strong social safety nets but also high standards of living and long life expectancies. They're living in that socialist hell that the Republicans warned us about.
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chickiebos5 months, 2 weeks ago
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How can education be the answer when you have all these graduates out there--both college and advanced degrees--unemployed? Unfortunately and increasingly, employers do not value education in the context of employment. All they want to know is can you do their job, and to them education does not answer that question. If anything, education inadvertently adds to the problem of unemployment. People who spend years in school come out to a world where those their age who did not spend that time in school have the work experience employers value, as well as their own places to live, their own cars, and can comfortably pay their own bills without worrying about huge student loans on top of it all. Fresh out of school, you don't stand a chance against these people in the job market unless you happen to know the right people or are "lucky enough" to get an "entry level" job that pays $20000 a year to start when you have $100000+ in debt. I deeply regret going to college and graduate school because of all this.
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