Topic: Education and the development of skills (Read 418 times)

Exactly I think this kind of formal education as well as practical education is very useful for the education system of my country. And I think it will be very effective for every country. Because only formal education is not enough to succeed in life it requires hands-on education. If it is possible to introduce such education in every country then I believe that the country economy will be more dynamic.

Education itself is a skill, it depends what part of the educational skills you wish to learn so as to make it your career. Education is the broad form that accommodates every sector in life, both the formal and informal sector are all encompass in education. So you're ability to learn a particular skill, makes that skill the part of education you've learnt, however education is not only about reading and writing, it serves as an avenue for you be understand others skills you would want to learn easily.

So for me, I would prefer for any of my relative to have both formal education and informal skillful education that they might want to use later in the future or pursue as a career.

You have a good parenting mind and I hope you'll do what you have said because sometimes there are things happening around our surroundings that can make us to change our mind and we become the opposite of the things we said we were going to be when we have children of our own

Education is having less say in career that is giving people money, being rich is no longer as a result of education but because of the talents that we are born with or have learnt which is also a skill. Musicians, actors and athletes don't have college degree but are making money from the deals they are signing with businesses or the club that signed them.
Education is still a good thing to have but lets not only focus on education as everybody can get an education but the skills that we learn is what will make us have a good future and not the education that we are spending money to have. Many People are stuck with college debts that they're yet to pay off because they wanted education.

Skills and education are very important in our lives, and everyone fights for what they are good at. Anyway, many people become successful in their businesses through skills, they fail to finish school, yet they achieve success in life. However, if I have children, I would not have to push them to become what I want them to be in the future, instead, each of them should pursue what they are talented at, if they are good at schooling, they should pursue that, if they have good skills, they should pursue that. As long as it is not illegal, I will have no problem with it. I do not believe that parents should be the ones to decide what their children can pursue, we all have our own goals, and we should not decide what they can do since they may end up doing poorly.

It is not possible to improve life without education, education is the only thing I need. Education is the source of knowledge, no matter what you look at, there is a great need for education. Nothing can be improved in life without education, but one must work hard to educate oneself.

In this digital world, learning a skill before acquiring education is good because you can take care of yourself in the college or university when you have a good skill because you will be earning from it why studying and learning a skill opens up one's knowledge about the particular skill they choose to learn so i always advise younger people to indulge in skills acquisition before going to tertiary institutions to acquire academic knowledge so that when they graduate they can use those skills to make some money for themselves pending when they have better jobs or they develop those skills to the best standard.

However, education and skills acquisition works together because even if you have a good skill without being educated, it may deprive you from working for prominent people because most of them prefers people who are educated to do business with so in a situation where you are not educated, it becomes a challenge because if you have a skill and you are able to meet high profile individuals it is possible for you to develop very fast and experience fast growth in your area of specialization.

You are right, education without skills is like learning without understanding much, because no matter how educated you are if you don’t have skills you won’t be successful at anything you go for, there are many graduates without work but with their skills they can become a successful person today, I don’t think education is important for some people life because many people are graduates and they end up doing other things that they don’t study, skills make us understand things more than education, some of us that are into business are not educated but with the knowledge of the skills we have we have able to make something good for ourselves.

Both education and skills are very important because education will make you understand some things that are very difficult for you, like some things we learn from our mobile phones and all the kind of stuff like cryptocurrency, but skills are very important for everyone, having a skill is also another way of making life easier for everyone, somethings are made without not being educated but with the skills we have we can make life easier without a job or depending on someone.

Without education, it can be difficult for you to prove your skills and the road to success is much longer. For every job you have to learn or gain knowledge first and as a result you become more skilled and the job becomes easier for you. Education and skill must go hand in hand because every time a person acquires education and besides skill improves his level of work subtly.

You are right, as the two work in hand in hand with each other, one has to support each other for it be at balance unlike in my own country, if you have the two, it's wasted as it will make you less of who are. You have to have the two so that you can apply it in some kind of situations you will find yourself.

But skill is more value in my own country because there are we don't have enough job opportunities for people to work, so people employ themselves through skills in order to earn a living and care and provide for themselves both for their families too.

It depends on your financial background and where you live, schooling fee can range from nothing to huge as f*uk depends on states, countries, public and private schooling but the concept is same where you get to gain knowledge in an environment filled with people from different lifestyle and that is the miniature of the actual society that itself is a biggest lesson.

But what you learn in school may not be enough, it is mandatory to gain skills and more skills to compete as I said earlier that will give the difference between someone with same degree and only few can be fit into it that extra skill will give you an edge for sure.

You are totally right, as it will be very helpful to aquire the both knowledge, because in some cases, you will have to need the two of them to be successful or excel in life.

Although learning a skill without education is actually good but going to school can actually take you to places and can also make your works popular, but in my country, to learn a skill is very essential as you can use it to survive just as you said.

Yes, it is true that education and skills are very necessary to ensure a better quality of life and it is necessary to have a balance in living it. It seems that opinions about this differ depending on their point of view to ensure a more advanced life value.

right now education does not pay as he used to pay before because many people who has graduated in university black employment opportunity because of government of this present time so I believe that whatever thing that you're doing now you should do it well that is only thing that will help you in life it is not only about being a graduate or not that the determine what to determine is your position and what you can be able to do successfully without any other person helping you.

Education and skills are like tea because just as tea needs a combination of tea leaves and sugar to make beautiful tea education and skills are like tea to be successful. However in some cases tea is made without sugar, but it is consumed by people due to illness. People cannot succeed without education. Those who drop out of school do not mean that they are not educated. They are much more educated because they are educated according to them and not according to institutions. They are successful in life today because they have applied knowledge.

In my opinion, both are very important because they can support you in achieving success. But if asked what is more important, of course I choose education. Because education will create knowledge and become the foundation for success, then success comes with knowledge.

Have you ever seen someone who only succeeded based on skills? Steve Jobs and Bill Gates may come to your mind thinking that they were college dropouts and they succeeded based on their skills. You are wrong. These two successful personalities achieved this level of success by creating a balance between knowledge and skills. They first gather the required knowledge and after that, they start working on their ideas.

When you have knowledge, you will definitely find a solution to the problem you are suffering from. With only skills finding solutions may be difficult sometimes. No doubt, skills are important in life. You can't succeed without the right skills. However, skills, when combined with the right knowledge, become even more powerful. So education will strengthen us to gain knowledge so that we can produce skills.

Many times only educational qualifications can get jobs and skills are not required. But it applies to government jobs ‍and if talking about private jobs then those who have experience along with educational qualification are given preference. If one wants to succeed in life even with minimum education then he has to do business where success is possible only with skill.

in my country actually both have the same important portion, someone who has a high education but low work skills, will not get a job and vice versa for those who have a low education but have high skills it is quite difficult to get a job, so the important thing is that you just do it both, as long as continuing to learn doesn't take up your time, there's no harm in doing both

There is no separation between them, because I feel like each person's left arm and right arm are the means to help us accomplish things. Everyone understands learning without action, as well as action without knowledge, so there is always a connection between them.

Depending on the viewpoint on linguistic theory, there are those who will talk about just taking action in life but in a way that accepts everything and looks back at that behavior to draw lessons, and that is also form we experience.

I don't understand the results of your Nigerian case study, but there is no doubt or there should be no doubt that skilled people succeed in anything they do. What you said will happen not only in Nigeria but ‍also in any country context.
Education is theoretical and skills are practical. Education acts like fuel to accelerate the work of skills. But your point is very valuable that there is no alternative to technical education for the development of any country. Which will simultaneously educate as well as develop skills.

my brother country is very corrupt and instead of me to involve myself in university taking 4 years of my time to study and graduate it is better for me to learn a skill within 1 year and 6 months so with that scale I think that I will be earning more than someone who graduated with Fs class so it is left for every person to make it own choice I choose skill more than education because there is no employment in my country

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.

After I’ve come to know the relevancy of education and also skill acquisition, I will have to engage them to take part in both of them because it’ll both be beneficial to them. If you’re not successful with one, you can get to do the other for sustainability or even leverage on both of them. I have heard a lot of people saying that education is not useful anymore but that’s a big lie because what education can do for you you when you have it is immeasurable once you get to apply it where it’s most needed. Likewise skill acquisition is also important because it can always come through to suit in for you for the meantime or lifetime if you find a path to success through it than the education you acquired. In some areas, education can be mixed with skill acquisition to acquire maximum results.

I'd say it's the other way round. In the old days all that mattered for a young man was skills. With no skills you'd either become a beggar or die. It's more or less the same now.
Just think of a situation where you'd want to hire an employe. The job is for someone to be your translator and guide while you do business in a foreign country.
Would you choose someone who finished language and culture studies but never lived in that country, or a native who speaks your language well, was born and raised in the place where you're about to visit, but lacks higher education?

I have seen many people after graduating from school, they will like to achieve some skills that will enable them to flow in the area of their field, so that they will become great in the future, and I have seen some people acquired skills to make wealth and return back to school to become a graduate.

I guess, education and skills are very important to humanity because you can use the two to achieve wealth which many people has achieved a lot of opportunities from education and skills from society.

Well, I will prefer education for my children because I know that after school they will surely get opportunity to get a good job that will make them great in the society.

Education is good but it is not what one just need to rely on because you can't really get what you want in life which you need to also looking into things like having a skill. Backing education to the skill you have is also good, it gives you more advantage than others with the same skill with no good education.  These two things are good, like the world we found ourselves today you just need these two things to survive you can not rely only one.

Globally getting a job is very scares , it is just important to get a skil as an alternative to create job for yourself when it is difficult for you to get a job with your certificate.

Education without the necessary skills related to the degree you graduate is wasted, on the other hand even if don't have any degree but skilled in anyway you can survive in this world at least and go on to make a successful entrepreneur based on the actual stats. So later is more necessary but one who is capable of reaching both has better chance to excel in the competitive world.

Yes that speaks volume in my heart, there is no way you can separate education from practical why may don't see education as skill is the nature to which most of the third world countries handle educational systems, even in the skill acquisition where most practical is performed their is always a way of communication that is part of education in which many beliefs is mere skills not education, we forget that education is of different classes such as formal, informal etc education is not only reading and writing it also involved skill acquisition.

Typical example many who study mechanical engineering hard the skill of repairing many damaged parts if machine which one that don't go through school can acquire as skill through oral communication but their must be transition of knowledge which is called education in the process either as formal or informal.
In my opinion weather formal or informal no one is left out they two inseparable in the means of learning in which one can education is not far from this two process as it meaning is not only on ready and writing it involves practical which is also know as skill acquisition locally.

I think you didn't define what message you want to past across very well because education is skill acquisition and same is skill acquisition a part of education. Except you are referring to the aspect of the kind of education where you only learn how to read and write and study courses that doesn't deal with practicals but only theory and oral teaching. When you are acquiring skill then you are also being educated at same time on that field. So it is same as the same thing if you don't mean only the formal aspect of learning letter writing, essay or exposition but if you are talking acquisition it is same as education.

Skills education is really needed in our lives, because education is to make us smarter, skills education is to sharpen our skills so we can survive, skills education is really needed for millennials because, if the skills are good then they can direct their life wherever they can because Skills are important both in work and in society.

In my opinion, education and skills cannot be separated, because they are in line and in harmony, both provide useful value for millennials, currently what is prioritized is our skills, followed by intelligence, it's useless to be smart but there are no skills at all, skills for Our need to look for a job doesn't necessarily have to be in an office job, if we have good skills we can design a job that can survive our daily lives.

Though both are highly useful, I believe that education is more important than skill acquisition. What do you think about this in today's world, and which would you let your brother, sister, or kids to pursue?