Curiosity, Thoughts and Whatever...

I am really at a loss of what kind of workers we are churning out these days. I have loss track of just how many university there are in MY. Recently I came to know about the existence of a University of Perlis. It seems that every state in this country now have a so called higher learning institution called university. I have not Google it yet because I don't feel the need to. I think it is some kind of ex-polytechnic or institute that had been converted to university status.

Two engineers graduated from this uni came in to work in my place. Since they are both freshie and are in the same group as I am, I have some enlightening experience talking and working with them. I do not know how to describe them or how to categorize them. All I could think of was the word SPOON FED. I just can't help it. They can't think, won't ask, do what they are told and don't do what they are not told.

Simple as 1-2-3. So in our line of work we need to be creative, analytic and resourceful. It is disappointing to say they have none of this characteristic.

Therefore with this and my past experience with a first class honours electrical and electronic grad from our top prestigious University of Malaya, I find them all very very soft. Perhaps it's all due to spoon feeding. Some of them don't know the basic of wire stripping and yet had the nerve to tell me that they use to have a stripping machine in the lab. In my knowledge the stripping of wire are an extremely low skills act, in fact it is the most basic skills for any hands on engineer. The UM guy had the nerve to tell me that …..oh…….I never did any lab……….most of his project was software base. Can you imagine receiving an answer like that ? Its all so flaw……the whole education system. What are we training out ?? A bunch of operator or robots who just follow instruction. There is no independent critical thinking nor self reliance or resourcefulness.

I hope somebody in the gov realizes this sooner better than later. If this goes on, we would all be robot and thus creativity would be dead and long gone.