Useful or Useless

Technology plays a significantly role in our daily lives. It facilitates us to have more convenient and better lives than before; however, it is a double-edged sword.

The BBC News Education and Family article “Costly hi-tech kit lies unused in schools, says study” reports that an expensive digital technology supporting education is not frequently used to the best of its full capacity due to lacking knowledge of teachers.

I think that the proverb “Never cast your pearls before swine” best fit to this situation. If you give someone something and he does not know how to use it or ever what it is, the thing will be useless for him. As a result, we need to evaluate the receiver whether he deserves it or not in order to make it useful. We should give to a person who notices its value so that he will use it wisely. In order to respond to this problem, they need to provide training to the teachers as well as children. As the technology has been growing rapidly, training the users and developing technology should be improved side-by-side. Improving one can contribute to the advancement of another.

Also, I think that this situation could apply to job recruitment. The company should give its employees the suitable positions as they say that “Put the right man on the right job”. If the company assigns its employees to the positions that fit them, they will deem the task valuable and make efforts to the jobs they assigned. Consequently, the company will run its operation smoothly.

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Reference

Costly hi-tech kit lies unused in schools, says study. (2012, November 16). BBC News Education and Family. Retrieved November 19, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20348322