Education

Yes. These days a college or university education is almost mandatory for getting a good job and a decent wage.
There are other ways such as apprenticeships .

 

I am a strong believer in a college education. These days the job markets are so competitive that without a college degree, it's a lot harder to find a decent, well-paying job.

 

Yes I do.

 

Education -> High Starting Wage (True)
Education -> High Starting Wage -> High Wage -> Success (False)

It really all depends on what you want to do. In a few circumstances where you become a sole proprietor, you really don't need a 4 year university education.

And sometimes, if you really know what you want to do, enrolling in programs and courses is better than getting a degree (i.e. farming... )

 

I will have to disagree with you.

education starts from birth and NEVER stops.:dry:
however, to have sucess in life, u don't need to go to collage so to say. or have a collage education to make u smarter. YES one may say, collage certificate will look good on ur resume BUT, ideolisim is key in the corporate world today and it is no longer than man with the most experience or the most collage cirtificates that gets the job, it's the man who has the most originality and be of highest asset to the organization.

However, to make big money, auditors might recommend that you do an extra course, in ur feild, specialize, get a BSC or Phd. but this is only to raise your pay. and not in all cases, while in the public sector where ur paid base on qualification, in the private sector your paid base upon performance.

so i will have to disagree with you today. sorry

My goal is to be a young entrepeneur in the fashion industry...and personally, i would rather employ an immature high school graduate rather than a first degree student from Yale! because while the high schooler will have out of the box thinking, the degree student might have a filterd knowledge of sector (only what he or she learnt in collage). and beleive it or not, it's the art of re-invention and creativity that creates productivity in almost any business; especially in the fashion industry (style comes, and style goes...then comes back again with a twist).

Alex.

 

It completely depends on what you want to do in life. For instance, people who want to become an electrician shouldn't go to university. It'll be a waste of four years in which they could be starting their career. They should be trying to get into an apprenticeship.

Conversely, if you want to get into a career such as law, then yes, you definately need to have a degree. I'm doing Computer Science, and while you might get an IT technician job without a degree, you aren't going to become a top-level IT/IS manager without one.

So, in many fields I think a degree definately boosts your chances of getting a good jobk, but in other fields there's simply no point

 

College is the best way to get a degree and most likely a higher paying job but not all the time. And college isn't for everyone, which is perfectly fine. That's the individual's choice to make.

 

I'm in College now!

 

Education in linked to success a majority of times, in my opinion.

 

We dont have college here, but 9 years in basic school is mandatory, and then 3 years in "gymnasie" is nearly required for everything except practical stuff like electrician or garbage man.
And i believe its very important, countries wont be succesful unless their people get educated, and thats a proven fact.

 

The education part of college helped whip my brain into shape better than it was in high school.
The time I spent with my dormmates changed the gawky, weird, insecure kid into the fun-loving gargoyle you've met on these boards.
The actual subjects taught? Less important than those two.

Lex

 

I just finished my sophomore year of college and I absolutely think its necessary both for success and the experience it gives you.

 

i resent that! check urself young man

i know many poeple who never went to collage and they contribute greatly to society. In jamaica, in the last election..the opposition used the stunt of saying the prime minsister did not have a doctorate and so she was not fit to be the leader of a country.

and right now poeple regret voting him in. yes that same fat man who said on BBC's HardTalk that he will never allow gay to be appart of jamaica's cabinet and inciminated homosexuality in jamaica more than it already is. and he has a so called Phd. and what? is he so called "educated" enough to know that homosexuality is not a CRIME.

what u don't know is that collage education does not put a value on someone's intelligence; and while there may be people out there who go to collage and work hard and actually do come out and don't even have a job because they are labed in the working world as "over qualified" individuals, some of them BUY their way out of collage or buy their degrees or masters.

seriously, we need to wake up.:dry:

 

education needs to be rethought

not just because the current system doesnt suit me - i guess in a strange way it does. but because i think it should focus more on life skills/morals/a way of thinking. doubt it could ever properly happen but no religeon should be taught in school, rather a set of values that are enforced and that peopel abide to. a more liberal society but one where people know there are consequences for their actions

the way to improve society is to improve peoples understanding in how the world works and what is and is not acceptable, not making sure an extra 2% of people a year can do trigonometry a little bit better

suppose for that system to come into play though everyone has to think the same way. and if everyone thought the same way, we may aswel go staight to communism