Education is a serious and dangerous little thing. I know I’m generalizing, but I’m not sure who’ll start off and get it out. Human factor is all that is and the belief that that reform can be done. It’s obviously necessary to rethink the processes and basics in education at all levels. Firstly, we need to admit that education has been alienated from life in the name of human domination, that it seeks to fragment not unite and that it’s devoted to careers and success, that the practical has distanced itself from the theoretical. As such, education is at fault for the majority of bad things that the world faces today.

We speak of a global challenge, but it’s clear that societies still believe in national solutions in dire moments, such as in the case of the refugee crisis. Everyone is looking for most effective solution models; waiting for someone higher up to solve it for them or us makes no sense.

The starting point in solving societal problems, and at the top is ineffective education, has been set by Albert Einstein, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Our problem is that the public doesn’t see education and the academic community as the solution to the problem. Isn’t that alarming? Who else can analytically and in a qualified way create a map that’ll lead out of the economic crisis that is generating all other side effects of social life? We’re suddenly paying attention to athletes (cadets, what’s more), occasional sport achievements of individuals, even achievements of young signers or entrepreneurs who themselves can’t realize how they achieved what they did, so they shoot themselves in the head out of despair. The despair goes so far as to expect politicians to find a way out. When people realize that politicians can’t do it, they turn to new epidemic such ex Higher education needs to transform and adapt to economic and social needs and it needs to cooperate as actively as possible with other institutions so as to increase the information and practice flow. Universities do that, but that’s not enough clusively ad-oriented media. We need to look for salvation in education, but we also need to specify what kind of education we’re looking for. There’s no learned thing. Everything changes and we all need to repeatedly learn and study what we do and to become aware every time how much we don’t know every day. Modern contemporary education needs to give to children and students this mission and make them realize that after getting their titles, the final user of those education services – employer – needs to mark and confirm the utilizable value of the gained knowledge or craft. That’s the mark to be feared by academic community.

Parents need to guide their children to their studies using the example of master and apprentice. Universities must be seen as craft workshops where the master will educate their child the best way possible and wherefrom they’ll be able to quality launch them into the labor market with as many probable career opportunities as possible.

Higher education needs to transform and adapt to economic and social needs and it needs to cooperate as actively as possible with other institutions so as to increase the information and practice flow. Universities do that, but that’s not enough. They need to do more and give more room to young people. Be less about vanity. Look for ways how to finance research. There are faculties who succeeded in that. It’s possible.

The state needs to give at least some of the money, but total jurisprudential regulation for the education system to function at all levels is needed. Dear professors: you can do it.