Topic: Education and the development of skills - page 2. (Read 418 times)

Education and skills are different thing entirely but many misunderstood the two days, in our today world, you will believe with me that most successful people in this country are business people and those with skills. Let me use Nigeria as a case study, After your years in school and Bagged that certificate then graduated you will still come back home hunting streets here and there just to seek for work but one who has a skills will be making lots of money through that skills he/she has

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Am not saying going to school is bad but as you are going to school also learn skills that will be fetching you money so that you will earn your ends need and will not be useless to the society, you will see many youths today in our society engaging in all sorts of criminal acts just because there's no job to Carter for themselves and their families.

Education and skills work hand to hand.

See, education and skills are equally important things and there is no chance to deny the appeal of either. But when it comes to consistency, learning comes before skill acquisition. Every person in the world is engaged in productive work and one of the main objectives behind this is to carry the responsibility of self and family also maintain the continuity of economic development. Hence, both education and skill are equally important for engaging in any productive work.

Both are required in today's time if the opportunities are limited. But what's good with these two is that you can also learn both of them, you'd learn to have that education and the same goes for the skills that you may want to acquire. I'd personally say that to my siblings to acquire first their diploma and earn that bachelors that they are taking as that will set them before they go into the real world. They will discover more of themselves and where they are interested with and good at.
As the time passes by, they'll learn new skills, they'd develop it and will see if they can go on with the other competitors if ever they get into the job market. But beyond these two, I'd tell them that there's one that will surpass both of it and that's what many employers are looking for before skills and that's all about having a good attitude. The naturality of having a good attitude will make the company want to hire you more and even you go into a business, having good attitude will bring you further than what you can imagine because you're coachable, you're humble, people will not go away from you but instead will bring more opportunities to you.

In my opinion, I will say the two has their own value in today's world, but I will to choose education for my loved ones because education offers both knowledge and ideas of skills acquisition, although skills is also important as it can also serve as a means of employment to oneself or to the society but a solid or a very good education will help someone to make informed decisions which can open doors for opportunities because we don't know where help might come from and education its also good incase we find ourselves in a foreign land, which skill acquisition can't especially if we can't frequently speak or write, it's important to learn skill to because it's not everyone has the brain to go to school. So I will like to also say that, any side an individual knows he or she can do well, should just do what he or she knows how to do best, be it education or skills because what favours one, doesn't mean it will favour others too.

I will give my own opinion based on what is happening in my country currently. I could remember way back during the 80s and 90s, education was the highest in the country and whoever goes to college is highly respected and gets a good government job. Then whoever goes to the university, on the day of his graduation, foreign companies will be lining up waiting to employ him, and send him abroad to train him on the skill aspect of what they want him to know.

These days, it is the opposite. The people that graduates from the university don't have jobs, and government is not doi g anything about it. If that graduate did not learn any skill, he will be forced to learn a skill so that he am survive in the country, or he will be doing odd jobs to survive. The people have are skillful are the ones enjoying in my country, because people will always need their services.

Now that inflation is very high in my country, and the price of commodities are 4x the initial price, the skill people will also increase the cost of their services to meet up with the high cost of commodities in order for them not to feel inflation that much. While the government workers or company workers salary will not be increased and inflation will hit hard on their income making them to live a low standard life compared to before.

Education is a very important thing in human life. No country or nation can ever prosper without education. So according to the philosophers, to destroy a nation, its education system must be destroyed. Again, without formal education, you can't even get a certificate. And without a certificate, you can't show your educational qualifications in the job field. I will say that no underdeveloped or developing country has a low literacy rate. But the number of unemployed in those countries is increasing day by day due to lack of proper training and modernization in the sectors where employment is limited and skills are not modernized. But skill does not only apply to education, but if one can be practically skilled in any work, there is no dearth of work. For example, if someone is good at driving or cooking or any work, there will be job opportunities for him in the country and outside the country. Nowadays even the less educated are earning money by using the internet or by improving their skills here. So I would say education and skill are both equally needed.

If I would tell anyone close to me to pursue education or skill,I would tell the person to pursue education.Education is light.Education creates several series of exposition.Skill or education all are ways of acquiring knowledge.An educated person can also learn several skills if he/she wants to.Education is valued and prominent in the society.For the fact that I know the value of education I would also tell everyone around me to pursue education and after being educated you can learn any skill you like.

Both are needed not only if the education is acquired but after the education as well as skills are needed. Knowing a lot about a lot of fields along with real education and having a lot of skills that you can turn your hand to any endeavor will ensure that you are always in demand. Having so many subjects to draw from has a surprising advantage: it allows you to look at issues and problems from different perspectives.

The importance of skill along side with education can no longer be over emphasis they are both important and useful in our society today first skill is part of education itself because it also has to do with a learning process. However, considering the nature of society today it is very important to have the both if possible to enable you have a better chance of having different streams of income such that when one is may not not be needed the other might be needed and there is absolutely not wrong having different streams of income flow.

Your question is which is better securing a college degree or acquiring technical or vocational skills? The answer will depend on the interest or talent of the individual. The financial resources available to an individual will also affect his choice. Some people are good at conventional academic pursuits and are qualified to pursue courses like medicine, law, engineering, nursing, etc. These people can enrol in universities and study to become professionals especially if they have sponsors or financial backup.

Some individuals don't have any interest in college degrees. They are proficient in vocational or technical skills. Many of them might not be able to read or write but are gifted in other skills that benefit society. Some individuals don't have the financial capacity to seek higher education, they can decide to acquire vocational skills instead of wasting their time seeking money to go to school. In summary, I will advise my child, brother or sister to pursue the area in which they have an interest and the capacity to excel.   

I think education and skills are very important for personal and professional growth. If you have both education and skills you can easily get ahead in life. See if education and skills are separate then you cannot progress fully in life. You may have majored in one subject or field in your education but in today's fast-paced job market, employers are placing more emphasis on skills than on your degree. Companies are looking for candidates who can hit the ground running and make an immediate impact, not just relying on the theoretical knowledge gained through a degree program. Education and practical skills are essential for catching up with the next generation and the future because both will propel you to the highest level of success.

Why not encourage someone maybe even yourself to have both education and skill.

I think education lays a good framework as you get to learn about the fundamentals as well as theories of a specific concept but skills is what would push you to the limit and really let you reach your best self. So in my opinion the best option would be to have both especially if you have a chance to have both.

Let's understand that education is a setup field to acquire foundation potentials to enlightenment probably on a theoretical out sketch while skills is the structural ability to caption and practically actualize a specific given application.

That's just to say both put cordially in one basket would enhance professionalism and in that fact, I can't afford to underate any of it regarded that they can be depended upon to produce industrious carriers.

I believe I concur with you because certain courses you can take call for a certain ability. For instance, engineering, architecture, etc. These professional courses demand high caliber abilities since an engineer overseeing a project needs to be well-versed in numerous engineering disciplines, such as carpentry, in order to guarantee quality work.

I’ll let my kids to pursue both. I mean, if there’s a debate about both, why not just have both? But if one could choose only one option, development of skill is a better option. The world we see today is not a result of just education. It is a result of practical education.

While you’re teaching other kids about how to fix a car in a classroom, I’d rather have my kid be fixing the car and having experience because it’s not always about what you studied. In most cases, it is about what you can do.

Education and skills acquisitions have one thing in common, they're both achieved by learning, one is in the four walls of a classroom, the other can be anywhere online or offline. They're both very important, education is a basic foundation for everybody, you need to be educated to learn how to read and write, broaden your view on general studies and in tertiary education, you'll understand very deeply about the concepts of your course, education gives you more opportunities to work in established companies. Skills acquisition makes a person to become a professional in their chosen field of work, and people who acquired skills can easily become self employed than very educated people who will be looking for white collar jobs.

Due to the high rate of unemployment in many countries, I think that if a person can get the least basic education, then skills acquisitions is better, because he can become self employed.

both of them are very important because not every person is destined to make money through education and not everyone is destined to make money through a skill acquisition so anyone supposed to notice it career at a tender age not when you have grown to the extent of being adult is when you notice your career I think it is very bad and it's not good for someone to be following things that is not where prepare to bring out it future.. education does not necessarily give us the future we need not you to also make you to be large and thinking and they understand them but skill may give you quick money more than education

Of course, a combination of both is necessary for self-sufficiency as a human being. Education makes you aware of your humanity even as it acquires different skills. As per your choice whatever you want doctor, engineer or whatever. Education can make you aware of decent environment. However, I am talking about real education for you which can teach us humanity and enable us to build a beautiful society or country.

Competence is an inherent quality that you acquire even if you don't have enough education. It depends on the surrounding conditions like if a society does not reach the light of education they also survive and they grow crops for their livelihood, hunt animals and they learn to acquire skills.
In modern society without education and skills you are almost immobile because your survival depends on these two basic elements. You definitely don't want to be dependent.

even though education is as important as skill acquisition, if we discuss the industrial sector, they will prefer people who are skilled compared to people who have higher education but minimal skills. because when people who have higher education are placed in industry, they need to learn more and adapt there, so it takes longer than people who already have skills and are ready to be placed anywhere with a lower adaptation time. this is why many companies now consider a person's skills rather than their education.

I believe it is supposed to be an equilibrium between both education and skills, education is associated with the management one can have over the theory of whatever one is doing, while skills can be associated to the practice and the experience one is supposed to get in the field.

Education is a like a formerly, which is something good if one wishes to pursue a professional career in some formal and important field like engineering, medicine, high cuisine. You know, those are the type of jobs which one is supposed to hold a university degree, regardless one is already good without that piece of paper.
After the formalities are finished and one starts to get experience in the field, that is the phase one is supposed to take advantage to learn from other who have more experience than one and also from others who have the skills but unfortunately may not have the university degree.

So, of one has the chance to go to college and go through the formalities and the knowledge acquisition there, then fine. Otherwise, it is also an option to develop an skill and if possible later on take certification courses and classes, which are short and not as expensive as a college degree.