Is education more important than experience?, ?? Options

[felltohell]

both are equally important...

[**J.I.S**]

Education is essential before you start your career, but once you start, it is all about the experience.

[Takashi]

They're equally as important.
Sure you can get your foot in the door without a degree but there will come a point when the chance for promotion constantly passes you by going to those with degrees.

[SeanMoran]

They're equally as important.
Sure you can get your foot in the door without a degree but there will come a point when the chance for promotion constantly passes you by going to those with degrees.

I tend to see it in the opposite way. A degree gets you in the door until they get to know what you're really like. That's what gets in the way of promotions, but these might be different trends in different "business industries" couldn't they of?

[Takashi]

I tend to see it in the opposite way. A degree gets you in the door until they get to know what you're really like. That's what gets in the way of promotions, but these might be different trends in different "business industries" couldn't they of?

Meh, I've met a few people that have felt forced to go to uni at the age of around 30+ because all the young kids with degrees are being promoted despite knowing far less about the job than them.

[SeanMoran]

Meh, I've met a few people that have felt forced to go to uni at the age of around 30+ because all the young kids with degrees are being promoted despite knowing far less about the job than them.

That's about what it gets like. I had a go at 30, partly for that kind of reason, but more to see what I could learn at a place like a uni. I finished two years early, but they didn't like that so we parted company ten years ago. It was a very different thing when I finished high school to what it has become today. What I notice the most though, is that in order to make room for enough idiots to graduate to keep the current party in government, they've had to dumb the whole process from high school upwards down so much that science graduates can't even spell finite anymore, and these jokers are the ones that are running the health care system. So it's more about what sort of turmoil the World is going to be in if I ever live long enough to enter an aged-care facility that worries me.

One of the three decent nurses out of around twenty in the hospital last February was a bloke called Dave. Like you said, he went back to school in his early 30s and had been working as a nurse for an hospital for two years since his graduation. He was 41 in February.

We basically got into quite a discussion over the difference between the treatment of cadavers in the science lab (aka subject) and living human beings (aka patient). Patients isn't much of a virtue anymore, and that's why experience and TRUE education counts over paperwork printed on felled trees.

(Just that it doesn't make you much money much more... )

[iyahcure]

if education is the key,than why dem mek it so expensive for we?

[ttocs]

In IT, experience is more important.

[coldsunlight]

it depends,
but education is a type of experience anyway.
You remember what you 've read or been taught or done before

[patchrag]

Nope, you need experience to construct meanings to what you learn in school.

[SeanMoran]

it depends,
but education is a type of experience anyway.
You remember what you 've read or been taught or done before

Yup, just as experience is a type of education.


HAAAAAAAA!

[freefallz]

Experience is also a type of education.

[sbullet]

there is no magic ratio for every case, but for average students (3.0-ish), experience is what sets you apart from your classmates. If your pulling near straight As, exp won't matter as much because you have demonstrated that you take in much of what is taught.

[Animefan]

No, some people gained the experience with no education.
Like some have said, you need both in the end.
Experience is just as important as knowledge.
It helps to have a better understanding though.

[JakeCutter]

Nope you can be an all As student and still be a complete dumbass
get thrown out into the real world and you have no idea what to do

The question is: do you know what to do? Where will you go? How will you make a living? You'll see how the real world works soon enough.

[film4reel]

1. education

2. experience

not the other way around ya'll. i work in human resources.

[JakeCutter]

In IT, experience is more important.

That's true. I already have my CCNA and going for a CCNP. My teacher once told me, "People don't want to hear what you can do. They want to see it". So I figure once I have both certificates and enough experience I'll try looking for a job.

[mndeg]

obviously depends on career

[mingy88]

I think a combo of both is what is needed, and I would say that experience more than education
is needed to get the job done, but because education is valued more, it'll help you get jobs faster than a person who just has experience.


I've seen time and time again the scenario where a person is deeply experienced in their field but can only go so far cuz they have no degree, and the socially awkward person that acts like they have no idea what to do outside of the classroom, has a better job position than the latter cuz they have a degree. And a lot of times the experienced one ends up training the inexperienced degree holder on how to do the job.

So, Experience is def important but more than likely, it won't take you far in this world if you don't have education to back it up.

Interning is a good way to gain experience (I did it).

[Jessyca]

I do think it is both education and experience just like many have said but what I do believe is that sometimes depending on the boss he or she might just like your personality and not give it so much thought if you are lacking in either education or experience.