So many people go to school to try and get ahead in their careers, often times this is done because they want to be part of management or be "the" management of an organization. Sometimes you will see someone who is doing this who positively hates (or at least dislikes) their boss and believes that they can certainly do a better job of it. I even have worked with people who not only believed that but were convinced of the certainty of such a "self evident" truth and used the fact that they can do a better job as motivation for staying up with school. I have been guilty of this myself when younger and dumber but as I learned in school I began to see new "truths" in life.
The problem is often there will be an agent for control within the organization either the employees or the managers, but seldom if ever both in my experience. In well run organizations it should be the management. Another truth that I have begun to discover is that often the organization or the employees themselves create the type of manager they deserve through their own actions or the actions of their peers. I find this ironic then when those same employees believe or claim to believe that their boss is an idiot, that anyone could do a better job and certainly they (the employee) could.
So what does this have to do with education? Well I believe that education should at the very least teach someone to think objectively, learn to research and find solutions and use deductive logic and reasoning regardless of the topic studied. The thing is, how many of us put this to work in our professional lives? Does your boss stink? Could you or your peers be the cause of that? Of course there are weak leaders out there and of course there are people who are lousy bosses simply because they are lousy or lazy people, but I believe that they are certainly the minority. Often your boss was just like you at some point. So if your boss stinks, what can you do about the problem now?
So this brings me to applying what you learn in school to doing what you do at work. Do you? Should you? Can you? School should have an immediate positive impact upon your life even should you never finish, but only if you apply what you learn. So apply these concepts that you learn and more to the point, apply the process you have learned to use in school at work when considering whether or not you like your job or boss. Otherwise, when you finish school you could become what you hate, an ineffective boss/leader.
Cheers,
---Cajun