In the United Kingdom, the Department of Education have
proposed draft curriculums focusing on horticulture and cookery over technology
by September 2014. With these changes, the department hopes to maintain an
emphasis on basic mechanical maintenance tasks instead of becoming dependent on
technology and computer-aided design within the secondary school systems. A
Department for Education spokesman stated the draft design and technology
curriculum would give pupils the "skills and expertise to develop the
innovative and creative designs and products of the future". Although, a chairman of the company BAE
Systems, Dick Olver, believes otherwise and that the UK should double the
output of engineers from the education system in order for the economy to be
stable. The curriculum now does
not “meet the needs of a technologically literate society”. As well as Olver, others advocating the
education reform believe that this promoted curriculum fails to offer children
a broad and balanced education.
It is interesting to spot the pros and cons of these
alterations in the United Kingdom. On one hand, I agree that mankind is
eventually going to be so dependent on technology that we will become
“brainwashed” into constant consumerism.
The technology enhanced in this age is all a component to instant
gratification and leaning towards the easy route over taking a second to think
for oneself. Though on the contrary,
technology is becoming such a universal connector that it is principally
essential for people to understand how to benefit from it, especially at a
young age. With horticulture and cookery being a higher priority than
technology in this day and age, it comes off as society as whole going
backwards instead of forward.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/31/school-curriculum-cookery-horticulture-before-technology
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