{"id":131,"date":"2016-02-22T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-02-22T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:17:28","slug":"the-problem-of-education-and-future-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/2016\/02\/22\/the-problem-of-education-and-future-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Education and Future Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading\u00a0<em>The Mill on the<\/em> Floss,<em>\u00a0<\/em>I encountered one problem regarding education that I believe is still relevant today. That would be the idea that young people\u00a0are being inadequately prepared for future jobs, some of which possibly don&#8217;t even exist yet. Eliot first presents this problem\u00a0in the novel when Tom is being taught Latin and Euclid by Mr. Stelling, topics that are &#8220;academic&#8221; and interesting but do not prepare him for the money-centric business world of book-keeping and accounting. Some of you have probably seen this video before, but it does a nice job of illustrating the problems regarding education and employment from the 19th to the 21st century\u00a0(His distinction between the economic and intellectual pillars of education I believe is quite relevant to the novel):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zDZFcDGpL4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s interesting to see this issue appear in\u00a0<em>The Mill on the Floss<\/em> since it testifies to the prevalence of this problem throughout history. I believe that with the incredible reliance on computer technology in the 21st century, our job economy is going through a radical transformation similar to the one that occurred during the dawn of the British credit economy. In fact, there&#8217;s a strong push in American public schools to begin teaching kids coding skills to prepare them for future jobs, with organizations such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/promote\">Code.org<\/a>\u00a0are at the forefront of this movement. More recently, Obama has\u00a0announced an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/01\/30\/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-computer-science-all-initiative-0\">initiative to fund and teach computer science<\/a>\u00a0to students throughout America, stating that computer skills will become &#8220;basic skills&#8221;. In December, Arkansas passed a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansased.gov\/divisions\/learning-services\/curriculum-and-instruction\/curriculum-framework-documents\/computer-science\/act-187-computer-science-course-information\">law requiring computer science courses<\/a>\u00a0to be available in all public and charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this problem of future job security is quite interesting, one that I grapple with myself as an English Literature major. I was wondering what anyone else thought about this problem as it appears in the 21st century? Also, does the novel present it as an issue that can be overcome, or is it an issue that is a natural product of a modernizing world?<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the video, do you agree with his observations and opinions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading\u00a0The Mill on the Floss,\u00a0I encountered one problem regarding education that I believe is still relevant today. That would be the idea that young people\u00a0are being inadequately prepared for future jobs, some of which possibly don&#8217;t even exist yet. Eliot first presents this problem\u00a0in the novel when Tom is being taught Latin and Euclid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/2016\/02\/22\/the-problem-of-education-and-future-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moneynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}