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COVID-19 and education
If you use a COVID-19 parable to describe the different types of education style, you would see how the Asians are getting themselves into deep water again and again.
The perfect scenario is to have people being infected by the virus batch by batch, depending on hospital capacity. If there are only 5000 beds available to treat such patients, then allow 40000 people each time, for example, to be "free and working". Then around 5000 will get sick enough to be hospitalized.
Denmark's higher education is exactly like that. Just like ICU beds are expensive and limited in supplies, so is higher education. Rather than having people dying out due to insufficient beds, it is better to spread the people out -- some would work for several years and back for a university degree, while some would not get back as they can make enough money for their family, not till they need to change their career path.
If people are allowed to die due to insufficient beds, social upheavals will be incubated. Worse, admitting all the patients is just like expanding the higher education too quickly -- the education system will collapse such that graduates can no longer get a good job because of lowered teaching standards due to insufficient resources. Just like COVID-19, where people should stay home and keep themselves healthy, or accept that if they are only showing mild syndromes, they should be quarantined at home, students should be able to self-study while the bosses should trust that self-studying is enough -- that would ease up much human resources to help those with special needs, and save so much money, time and energy just for the purpose of certification (and creating inequality between the poor and the rich). It is very important that expensive help should be given to those who really need it.
Self discipline and trust is what makes the day. The two comes as a pair.
Yes, in my eyes, Denmark has done well this time with the COVID-19 challenge, as it has with the education and work culture.
The perfect scenario is to have people being infected by the virus batch by batch, depending on hospital capacity. If there are only 5000 beds available to treat such patients, then allow 40000 people each time, for example, to be "free and working". Then around 5000 will get sick enough to be hospitalized.
Denmark's higher education is exactly like that. Just like ICU beds are expensive and limited in supplies, so is higher education. Rather than having people dying out due to insufficient beds, it is better to spread the people out -- some would work for several years and back for a university degree, while some would not get back as they can make enough money for their family, not till they need to change their career path.
If people are allowed to die due to insufficient beds, social upheavals will be incubated. Worse, admitting all the patients is just like expanding the higher education too quickly -- the education system will collapse such that graduates can no longer get a good job because of lowered teaching standards due to insufficient resources. Just like COVID-19, where people should stay home and keep themselves healthy, or accept that if they are only showing mild syndromes, they should be quarantined at home, students should be able to self-study while the bosses should trust that self-studying is enough -- that would ease up much human resources to help those with special needs, and save so much money, time and energy just for the purpose of certification (and creating inequality between the poor and the rich). It is very important that expensive help should be given to those who really need it.
Self discipline and trust is what makes the day. The two comes as a pair.
Yes, in my eyes, Denmark has done well this time with the COVID-19 challenge, as it has with the education and work culture.
tag : 心理歷史學
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