Dwapara Yuga: Education and human potential

Modern systems of education came about to meet the needs of factories.  In prior ages, farmers learned enough just by watching, there were specialized programs for priests and clerks, with so-called nobility (gangsters like Napolean or Henry VIII) getting a liberal arts education based on personal tutors and travel.

Prof. Sir Ken Robinson presents an excellent perspective on how the overemphasis on technical subjects in modern universities and colleges is killing creativity.   Such a realization is itself symptomatic of Dwapara Yuga:   a realization that many professional roles from lawyer to accountant to engineer to doctor are simple extensions of the machinery of modern factories whether the end product be fridges, computers or derivatives.