Topic: Education, no longer a criteria for success. (Read 315 times)

When I see topic like this , I just conclude the OP doesn't know what's education or his seeing university graduate as educators only. Education is very broad concept and the only way to succes, without education no one as ever seen succes ful or will ever see. First education is the transfer of knowledge from one person to another.  Its could be form or inform. Its form when your develop the cognitive through attending school, it's informal when your develop the psycomotive ( learning skills) all of these are education, so tell me how you can be successful without learning from one another.  

I think the OP did injustice to education and he should just change the topic.

Measuring success with how much you have in your account is totally wrong. Success is not about making money alone. Don't be deceived because people are now making money through different means and think that they are successful. Nobody said that making money was only meant for those that went to the university. And mind you the university education is not the only education that one can go through to be considered as educated. Majority of the youths you are referencing went through primary and secondary education. And for someone who has went through secondary education and can read and write, you are considered as educated. Someone who haven't gone through primary or secondary school will find it difficult to cope in whatever he/she is doing. If you say university education is no longer the criteria for success I will agree.

But talking down on education generally is where I will disagree with you. Remember we have formal and informal education and for you to make it in this life, you must either pass through formal or informal education. In the end all are classified as education. For you to learn trade or business from someone that's education taking place. Learning of skills that's still education. Anyhow you see it, we still need education to progress in life.

Definitely,my opinion on this again be say,who go succeed go succeed,e doesnt matter whether the person been go school or not,as long as he has that brain of doing something productive,there is every tendency say him go do well.
Gone are those days when our fathers been finish school con get get job immediately,and even offer them car,now,things don change hand,you no go ever see any free opportunity like that,na you gat make move,and pave way for yourself.

If education is really a criteria why are we still under developed and among the poorest countries in the world, meanwhile we have lots of graduates with first class and higher CGPA, education does not certify anyone to be successful. I  rather be an undergraduate with good finance than a graduate with nothing to show for. In my words, i am not brutally against education but taken it as the ultimate when there are skills, handworks and talents that can be explored into perfect sense to reshape and resize ones finance, instead we prioritize the certificate other than the right thing to do. Get a good education, but do not be dependent on that certificate, many has gotten that paper work before you so putting it ahead always will only cause a tragic ending.

You are explaining from the point of view you can see and understand about education but it may not totally be how you see it that they tend to be all today still. Your education and the certificate given to you which was obtained from school may not give you the job which you fought to go to the school for, but it’ll for sure pave some other ways for you in life general that if you never had the education it’ll be harder for you to understand that or it may even be something you can never attain. No matter how bad the economy of the country is, you need to understand that education cannot be disregarded as a pivotal tool to a more easier and successful life than an uneducated person will achieve without being educated.

I believe education is not completely the criteria to success but with the advancement of technology and science, everything now is attached to knowledge. Let's take for instance, most businesses are ran through online and an illiterate will find it hard doing business. Education is also a criteria but not completely the backbone of success.

It is always a case that the extra curricula activities during school is the best part of the schooling. While you may have just decided to study at home and register for courses remotely, some people have left gone as far as traveling offshore looking for this same education. It is not just the lectures that matter, what matters most is the people you meet, the network you built and the exposure yu get in the process. It helps you become better placed and better informed in the world.

It depends how someone looks at it. Most successful people have gotten a story to tell from their schooling. Either by meeting with their helpers or friends in which they later built trades and businesses. The advantage of education to one's life is enormous and cannot be overemphasized.

I nor sure sey e get anytime wey dem stamp am sey persin gat to enta school to become successful. Na mindset make people begin think dat way because those days na few people go school and gofment jobs plenty die. So, dat time graduates dem dey get jobs already waiting for dem as dem dey graduate come out. Most of those positions too den dey come with official cars. So, anybody wey go school den e mean sey automatically you go get job after school and begin earn.

But dat nor really be wetin success dey about. Nor be about getting jobs. E supposed be about self fulfilment.. Shebi we dey see apprentice businessmen with zero education but dem dey run their businesses well. Na part of wetin success supposed be.

Education was a criteria for success before,and that was in the olden days,times when they really valued education.
It was also a time when getting education was very hard,and for anyone who was able to go to school then was employed Immediately by the government.
Nowadays,there are no guarantees that one's you educated,you are going to get a job,the moment you are hard-working,it doesn't mean whether you went to school or not.

I don't think our parents where entirely wrong, in those days after graduation there where lots of companies, industries, factories, multinationals and even the civil service, where you can work and earn a good living for yourself, so education was the bedrock that will enable you ascertain that kind of lifestyle.

But I would like to correct one impression that you are putting out, you said "these days the youth have proven that you don't necessarily need to be fully educated in higher institution in order to attain success".  in education there is what we call formal and informal education. In informal education, this is the category where you have artesians, skilled and unskilled professions and their likes, these set of persons don't necessarily need to have a higher education for them to earn a living, they just need to have the skill set of a particular profession they've learnt handy for them to earn a living with it. While the formal education teaches you professionalism as an educated and a career person, this comes with a certain profession like the medical doctor, the lawyer the engineer, an accountant and the rest of it. So far apart that you did not get your hair allocation does not mean you are making to survive of naked in life successfully in whatever career you decided to pursue outside education.

Education does not guarantee's success neither does education guarantee's a better life. Success is not about being educated and success doesn't come from academics, there lots of people who are well educated yet not successful neither do they have a good job But however education is important in other not to miss out any opportunity in life . In aspect of a white collar job aside the aspect of  a white collar job to be able to express yourself in any social gathering . However success comes from a good skill and hardwork

Yes  what you are saying is right education is still the key to success , one thing that majority fails to understand is that we have different kind of education.formal education and informal education so since the saying goes that education is the key to success ,it was not specify that formal education is the key to success neither was it specify that informal education is the key to success rather it was general so if you done have any of this form of education there is no way you can survive in this world . Even in this forum if you don't have any form of education you can not be here in this forum.

Yes growing up we were made to understand that good education is the key way to success in life. And everyone had one mindset and one goal when it comes to being successful. Which is get good education by going to the university then study and graduate then come out with good grades and then boom there you go.

The truth is, it’s a still works that way but not with the way the system has changed. Now the system has made it look like education is not worth it. But that’s not true. It’s good to get a good education, but must have something to back it up so you don’t get the good education and with your grades you look stup*d and hopeless.

One should learn a skill. If permitted have a stable business before diving in to the university after getting your O level cert.
this way you won’t fall victim of them who with their degree can’t afford a living

I think most people narrow down education to only the formal schools of learning which must be established by the westerners or the likes, they do not factor in the fact that it is not only the western education that is formal. There are also religious educations which are acquired formally with curriculum like your western schools. But is it even just the formal education that's the only form of education?

No. Even the informal education like learning self-thought hard and soft skills are also forms of education. It does not stop there, even watching of online videos, chatting with educators and learned friends are also forms of education. Vocational training such as welding, tailoring and other skills are forms of education or better a said, a way of getting educated.

Education can still determine your success. You just find it hard to understand it in the best way; if not, without education, you will not know how to speak different languages and also how to communicate with different investors. Education is never a waste. Moreover, we are not supposed to see the fault of our parents because at their time there were a lot of companies that were looking for educated workers to work with, but due to how many of them were not educated, they lost the opportunity, and they tried their best to see that we didn’t make the same mistakes with them, but at the end of our time almost everyone is corrupt and there are more vacancies in those companies, so we have to find a way to create our own company that will provide us with a good income.

School is not the major route to success but the best advise i can give is never to be uneducated at this point where owning a certificate is the most common objective that majority stive to ascertain. If you don't prioritize it as a financial source but at least make sure by every possible means to be a graduate with a pretty good grade.

Nobody knows how the future might play, due to how bad the economy is becoming, nobody knows how lucky you might get with that certificate, i think with the way things are playing already everything moves with connection and lucky enough if you have built that relation during schooling days.

Along the long line of getting the degree, we also get to meet up lots of people that potentially can contribute to our success in the future which is unforeseen at the time, so education is not a waste of time.

The likes of the former successful men and women in the early days (before the 15th century that education was introduced to our people) did not archive success via education but rather true hard work. Hard work I mean is specifically on agricultural products. At that time, the richest men and women were farmers.

During the 19th century after education started gaining popularity, that was when some parents started to send some of their lazy (😪🤣) children to go and study and after their study, they immediately got employed. But yet, the strong men where kept to do the hard fram work.

So, what am just trying to say is that, from time immemorial, success was never determined by education. This time around, just work smart and gain the necessary knowledge of being success and you will be successful.

OP, u see dis education something, I no dey joke wit am. I'm not employed, neither am I receiving salary from the government, but my dear, the power gotten from education has provided me with the knowledge and skill to survive, relate with people and become useful to my society. What of this forum, am sure you can already see the magnificent work of education all day long.

To measure how important education is, you will notice that even fraudsters, looters, criminals, even business men, wether small scale or big, etc, also needs education to showcase their technical know-how, plan and also execute their plans which gives birth to success.

Just like @Hewlet said, education, be it formal or informal, trains you to be self employed. Be educated and become self reliant and build the much desired success you seek for. And that's just it. Enough of waiting for employment. Sincerely, be it now, tomorrow or even in death, I will still fly the flags of education as a major tool to change, greatness and success.






Hewlett.

Education is still the key to success weather you believe it or not. You cannot succeed without knowledge which is gotten through education be it formal and informal education.  If you want to go into business,the first step will be to get the relevant knowledge either through someone who have been in the business for long or through the knowledge of formal education. Both cases are still part of education which shows that education is indispensable for success. If your emphasis is on formal education, then you will be right that it is no longer  criteria even though it can be a big boost.

I guess we all heard the same stories of how there was less labour force and people are made to start working right after their secondary school days as I was told in those days. After you’ve been employed, you can still continue schooling part time and still getting paid every month. Things have really changed now and I think the government really has a very big role to play in it. The population is increasing which will result to more labour force but as government are not taking advantage of that to even help boost the economy, the common man child looks for other means to make ends meet and see education as not the power to become successful today. Education is important regardless and the benefits are unhindered even in your struggle for other means of survival which didn’t come through your study from school.