The Role of the Educator in the Preparation of Tomorrow's Workforce in the Middle East.
William Arthur Ward once wrote;
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is not my intention to tell anybody here how they should teach, rather I would like to discuss the relationship between education, employment and the development of tomorrow's workforce.
To understand why countries developed various ways of organising their education system we need to step back and look at history.
In ancient history, education (as we know it) had little relevance to the everyday life of the common person and was largely the preserve of advisers to rulers.
In the middle Ages, the education process developed as the thoughts and ideas of learned people and thinkers were no longer disseminated orally but were distribution through the written word. This was a laborious and expensive process. Consequently, only the nobility and the rich merchant classes could afford to receive an education. The general population still had little need for classical learning as they were still primarily engaged with the daily survival of life. Their overlord or master controlled their life and commerce was based on a barter system.
As the process of modern state formation began to develop i.e. the establishment of specialised institutions for the establishment of monopolies like police, army etc. over a given territory and the administration of a system of law and taxation leading to the development of an economy, a need to develop administrators grew; as unless governments could guarantee contracts by the power of the state there would be little point in making business a ...