The Impact of Industrial Revolutions on Work and Education

In Industrial Revolutions, We've Created a Lot of Work

In industrial revolutions we've created a lot of work, specialized and repetitive. There are also a lot of data in all the machines. We've had a lot of departments handling accounts or administration... Millions of persons doing, specialized, repetitive and data-based work. But now we have someone that loves specialized, repetitive and data-based work that obeys blindly and doesn't receive any salary or rest: computers.

The Problem with Our Educational System

Let's see, the problem with our educational system is that it's mainly based on memorizing facts, completing repetitive exercises, specializing in one thing, and following orders. We're still set on educating our youth by memorizing facts, completing repetitive exercises, asking them to specialize in one thing, and to follow orders. It's impossible to compete with computers in these things. Technology isn't the problem, we're the problem. We've been preparing ourselves to become a species of poor artificial intelligence.

What Are We Capable of Doing Right?

And what about what we're capable of doing right? We don't fully know, but we understand our brain enough, and we know that:

• We cannot simply enter data into the brain or we will forget almost everything after an exam. The brain needs stimuli like emotions.
• Doing a lot of repetitive exercises to create a habit isn't necessarily a bad thing, but machines are much better than us in repetition. However, they're worse than us in unpredictable things.
• On specializing, we're good at crossing things.
• In orders, sometimes we have to do what we have to do, but we can't be better than a machine in it.
• We have a weird thing in this, critical thinking. Sometimes, we do other things instead of doing what we're supposed to be done, and from there we make a lot of progress.

Why aren't we trained in critical thinking? We've spent a lot of time educating ourselves like this, and we discovered a lot of things and grew a lot without training these things. What would we achieve if they trained us these 'superpowers'?