Incorporating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in Technical and Vocational Education

Introduction

        The journey for learning has always been arduous, but when adequate means are available, it becomes less burdensome. By adequate means I mean everything which makes learning purposeful and fruitful. For the digital students, learning has become at their disposition thanks to the multitude of resources and the easiness of accessing them. However, for the millennial learners who rely greatly on search engines to answer all their questions, learning is getting more complicated and more risky at the same time because they are predisposed to accept any answer provided even though their question was not the exact one they want to ask. They need special cognitive skills to evaluate before accepting the provided answer.

          The necessary skills to cope with real life nowadays have become great in number and diverse in type, but also hard in adjustment. Unfortunately those skills are not yet taught at school. As it has become ludicrous that school delivers information which doesn’t help the learners build an emotionally, physically, intellectually and financially balanced personality, real life skills have to be integrated in school syllabi. This is no longer a suggestion; it has become an obligation. For scientific and technical streams, teaching English as a foreign language requires a blender material which must entice the students to activate and make use of their long term memory and to use their thinking abilities appropriately as real life skills. In real life, they will surely have to deal with situations that need vigorous investigation and be faced with problems which need long lasting original solutions.

          Obviously, in the past few years, young people didn’t use to face the same problems as youth have to face today because life is getting more complicated. Subsequently, nobody can imagine the harshness of problems in the future. They will certainly be more complicated according to the complexity of their professional, emotional, marital, financial, social, administrative, and legal sides of life.  They will have no excuse as they will be responsible for their acts as adults, so they need to develop critical thinking from now, and learn to solve problems by going deeper to the source of any issue to fix it for preventing it from recurring. School can provide them with the basic skills, and it is for them to develop those skills and improve them via intensive practice.

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The Dynamic Type of Education Needed for Today

INTRODUCTION

    It must be understood that education has always been dynamic. Its role is one, and it is to help children grow naturally. It provides them with the necessary academic knowledge (concepts and theories) and enough experience (for building sustainable careers) to develop and grow normally with life. Education is not meant to mess up with the kids’ innate settings. It’s only meant to discover, to foster and to sharpen their talents and to incite them to be creative and innovative. It is for kids that education is primarily destined.

          No doubt, like any other “living” entity, Education should be looked after carefully so as to grow healthier and stronger. As it is the keystone in the development of nations, it should be given greater care to grow straight, robust and prolific. Without a strong well managed educational system, no applicable learning and subsequently no progress are to be expected. Any educational system not aware of this yet is doomed to reproduce mediocrity.

As it will continually implement those invalid outdated methods and those boring frustrating contents, barren educational systems will permanently become the cause of the poor outcome of long years of continual inappropriate teaching techniques and no serious authentic practical scientific research and critical thinking skills. Hence, the seeming uselessness of school for personal, communal and national development will gradually become a general impression.

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Things that cannot be recovered

         There are at least three things in life that have to be carefully dealt with because once they are gone off, they cannot be recuperated or remediated. I’m referring here to the time when it is lost, the words when they are spoken, and the opportunities when they are missed.

           Let’s start with the lost time. Time is man’s terrifying adversary number one. It is pitiless. Once you waste it, you can never find it again. For most people, time is not precious until they lose it. Can you imagine the amount of time people waste every single day?! They have to feel regret after it is gone because they know they’ll never have it back. However they never learn, they make the same mistake again and over again. It is a part of their life which has been spared for nothing. Those who value time, they do their utmost to keep busy thinking and exploiting every moment the maximum. They firmly believe that “There are only two times in life, ‘Now’ and ‘Too Late’”

        The second is the spoken words. You need to watch your words closely. Once you say something, it is impossible to unsay it. It is always too late to undo once the word goes out of the mouth. It is just like the bullet; nothing can stop it, and nobody can imagine the damage it can cause. You have to think before you talk since what you say can be fatal for the others or for yourselves.  Therefore, you speak only when you choose your words carefully lest they should hurt, or make a jerk of you. If you don’t want to keep apologizing all the time, be the master of the words by not pronouncing them until you make sure they are harmless and maybe wise as well. Don’t forget that the wounds that some words cause last forever, and are never healed.

      The third one is the missed opportunity. Good opportunities seldom knock at your door, so you have to keep quiet and listen carefully. Maybe one day a roving good opportunity knocks at your door, then you shall be ready to seize it straight away otherwise, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Those precious occasions are not frequent just like luck. “Take full of every opportunity that comes your way” as Milka Duno said. Never miss it. If you keep missing opportunities, it is obviously your fault; that’s why life is a series of random chances which have to be seized and well exploited. Once they are missed, those opportunities are lost forever.

         To sum up, your life is made of beautiful things that you can easily and unintentionally ruin. So if you want to avoid this, you have to be dutiful with time by not to wasting it, and you have to watch your mouth for fear you should destroy your social life with stupid unnecessary comments or words, and finally you have to be vigilant to grasp the rarely presented opportunities before they are gone forever.

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