Graduation: A Product of Henry Ford

Remember the Apollo 13 disaster? An old physics teacher once explained that NASA's engineers used an old part from another rocket to make the Apollo 13 rocket work. There was only one problem: the part didn't work. It failed because it wasn't designed for newer technology. Apply this idea to our educational system: we live in the information age operating under a school system designed for old industrialism, and the design doesn't fit our needs. Much like a factory assembly line, we separate information into fields and force students to segregate accordingly. We are assembled piece by piece, class by class; when we finish that process, the university stamps our forehead with the "educated" label. Then we go out into the real world, where most of what we learned in school no longer applies. Of course I believe in education and its importance, but our current system is no longer good enough. We don't have time to waste training students for nonexistent scenarios! Let's focus on real-world applications.