Education vs. Experience: Which is more important?
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Education is a result of experience, we learn from our experiences and through them.  Without our intitial experience during childhood, we would have had the hardest time learning, because we use our experience as our reality.  This experience is also the foundation of our education.  Now, we all have an obligation to go through schooling for a certain amount of years.  Some go to higher education and others don't.  Going through higher education gives you a wealth of experience of having fun and meeting new people.  One who did not go to get higher education is just as more likely to go through a similar experience.  Our society however needs proof of how reliable of a person you are, and what better way than to see what kind of education you have had.  It sucks, but it's the reality, right?  Of course, if your long term goal in life is to become rich, you will never be rich.  If you want to be rich, you will find many ways, even without having the education.  An employer should go by both, and they do check your experiences and education.  If however an employer requires that you need at least a BA or BS degree, and you do not have one but have lots of experience, they should choose which ever weighs more.\n\nBut no doubt, i believe experience is more important in life.
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Educational goals are more long term. That is the end product. The objectives are what you need to achieve along the way in order to reach the educational goal.
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This is the old question of education vs. experience.  Both are important and both help to thrive.  However, if you want to have experiences on the better side of town you should give some serious thought of getting an education.
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Higher education is important for two reasons.  First, depending on what you want to do for a career, you might need knowledge to do your job.  You can't be an engineer without some higher education.\nSecond, in college you learn whole new ways of thinking. Employers like to hire people who have gone to college because they can think in more sophisticated ways.
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Both!   The internet can be more educational than u think.Books can only teach you so much,the internet has so much more!
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If your looking for IT knowledge you have the best tool in front of you experiment with your own computer. I have been in IT for almost 10 years. And I have seen alot of people go threw the IT courses only too find out a majory of there certifications didn't really prepare them for real problems that can happen. Training is good. But should not be a substitute for good experance. Both need to be used hand and hand. Training and Experance. So don't be afraid to do both.
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The type of degree you have is often irrelevant to your career path.  What is most important is that you have studied to that level and shown what you are capable of.  I took a degree in English and Archaeology but I now work in the public sector promoting languages and cultural skills!
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of course, you have the added advantage of life experience. putting your knowledge to practical use. filtering the shite from the important stuff.
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THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE.\nDeming emphasized that knowledge is not possible without theory, and experience alone does not establish a theory. Experience only describes—it cannot be tested or validated—and alone is no help for management. Theory, on the other hand, shows a cause-and-effect relationship that can be used for prediction. There is a lesson here for the widespread benchmarking practices: copying only an example of success, without understanding it in theory, may not lead to success, but could lead to disaster.
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Well, from my experiences, pedigree (experience) is always stronger than any degree. There's are people with lots of knowledge, but are working mediocre jobs just to pay for the knowledge. It doesn't matter where you get your degree from, if you don't have the experience to back it up, 80% of the jobs will not even give you a chance. Sure, some people may prefer if you have a college degree, but if you know how to talk the talk, that "degree" is overlooked. \n\nThe question you should be asking is if you are getting the education from the courses you are taking. If you feel you learned something, then more power to you. If you feel that it's a waste of time, then pay up and leave it alone. This nation is nothing but a bunch of "B and C students" anyway.\n\nI won't worry about degrees, I worry about experience because degrees are papers with general knowledge while experience speaks volumes. So, if you are taking an online course, better get a job to match that degree while you are taking that course... or you'll be sorry!
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A degree might help him get knowledge, but experience is what he needs. There are a lot of books that he can read to learn how to do this. You dont need a college degree to repair computers and to start your own business. You only need a degree if you want to work for a company or for somebody else.
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A college education is no good without common sense.  Common sense is good without a college education, so therefore I say common sense is more important.
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depends on your level of education and experience
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To experience and thus to learn.
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Probably because games are recreational, entertaining activities, whereas education is work. I would venture to guess, however, that such is not the case for all people.
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on da base of good experience n education
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Depends on experience