All the latest storms engulfing medical profession nowadays, set me thinking about the purpose behind Education in Society today. More importantly, what are we learning from Education! Is the assumption, that “Education is an effort of the senior people to transfer their knowledge to the younger members of society” correct? In the present day, Internet has opened a myriad of opportunities for serious to most frivolous learners.
Education in a true sense is becoming costlier than learning. Through our (MUS -Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Society) experience of organizing meetings and workshops on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, what starkly stood out was how the concept of modern education is being sought primarily to fulfill needs of the industrial economy. A vast range of subjects like medicine, health, engineering, management, and law have become hot areas of professionalization and…
