Topic: Education, no longer a criteria for success. - page 2. (Read 315 times)

Why do you guys misplaced this ideas, and who tell you guys that education is a waste of time, or that education have lose it potential of generating future successful individuals.

What I want to know is that:

1: Are you mistaking education to certificate?

2: do you mean the level and kind of courses we read in school is no longer marketable to give success.

What my conclusion is about this is that, education is the most important tool for success, regardless in which Field or career, reason being that, check most of those who are successful in their business, are mostly educated fork's, is either they pursue their course of study and career line, e.g doctor's, engineers and the rest, but we have those who also left their course of study into entrepreneur, and are successful, all through the decipline the get from school and the level of education, this makes the place of education in individual success very important and potient.

Though our government, educational and political system may have failed us over the years when it comes to effective learning in this country, one thing I know for sure is that education can never be over-emphasize, irrespective we have these group of young guys known as the yahoo, who fluent expensive lifestyle at an early stage without a visible source of income, hence, making education to look like a scam, most especially after an individual has graduated from a university and yet has no job or source of income, due to corruption in the system.

However, for the fact that you went to school is never a guarantee for success, because although success could be measured in different ways, such as educational (i.e when you graduate with good grades), spiritual and financial success, of which all these are always a product of hard work, patience and dedication over time.

If you compare life back then with life now it was easy to believe that success could only be achieved through education because every successful person back then passed through school. Work was easy to get and once you are done with school there are lots of job opportunities awaiting, the country and economy was still favorable but now that is not the case, a lot of people have graduated from school for years now and still haven’t gotten a job people are now forced to try out other sources and ever since the advancement of technology more employment opportunities have now presented themselves making it possible for people to work online while some are into physical businesses. People have now turned away from government jobs and even see school as waste of time and resources.

Education have a lot to do in our lives and even with the scarcity of jobs we shouldn’t regard it as scam and we should make sure our children are educated no matter what because it exposes us to and prepare us against diffident situations in life.

the youths have not proven anything. They didn't have a choice and have to resort to whatever available means of making money and hopefully the media platforms and freelancing jobs came up and it helped in a way.

If like say you de talk of the Nigerian schooling system as not being a criteria for success, e for make sense but saying that education is no longer a criteria for success is totally wrong. Be it formal or informal education, they are all recipes for your success in whatever choosen field you're currently in. Even the formal education that we so much criticize still expose us to a lot of the people and network we've built that's still helping us in today's world. Take out formal education and a lot of people would still be in villages doing local farming or fishing on a smaller scale without knowing how far the world has gone in that sector.

Truth be say time don change and for this era, you no need de carry your certificate up and down looking for who will employ you. The educational system wasn't even designed to train you to work for people all the days of your life. If you're able to acquire a knowledge that helps you to become self employed, it even make sense pass working for government  that comes with a small pay with loads of responsibility. In this era, you need education, you need skillset, you need connection and you also need God for you to do well not just for the short term but for a long time.

the exposure to people was worth it , but a little disappointing perhaps, as we couldn't achieve what we thought education had in store for us.
The different people I met changed me A lot positively. I mean that was how I even got to know about this forum.

Education will still be necessary for growth since it broaden your horizons, seeing different individuals of different qualities will definitely help in growth and that's why a student in Havard have much respect and recognition than other top universities also since they will be among high level individuals including lecturers.

Also, this helps in gaining knowledge, though knowledge is necessarily not gained only through education rather a catalyst for acquiring knowledge and it's important to note that entrepreneurship is the way to actual financial freedom since if you're dependant on salary only, once you retire you're back to trying to find a way to settle and this are and still the issues of many who don't likely planned well in their early days of being an employee.

Yeah that's where most folks do get it wrong , they usually have this mindset that once you go to school one will endup getting a good job like is guarantee. The truth is that education is just there to get you in some aspects of Life, though the education system in our country is tough due to low facilities and other stuff.

But the thing is that the knowledge you gain all those while matters alot , without it though most folks here won't be able to pull off those qualities post they are pulling now . So education still play a role in becoming successful still, despite you here some folks got rich without going to higher institutions, but still they still undergoes system of education .

I was unable to get good job in my country but one thing that I do not regret after having a tough time in University is that I went to school. School was hard but if you can remember very well it was also fun. You meet people and also everything is not about school but also there are fun parts.

Also education is not only about getting a good job. Education can help you in knowing what you can do to make a living.

I can remember while Growing up, Education was the frontier of our entire Goals and aspirations. I was made to think that I could never attain success without a better education. Not just me but also so many kids back then.
My dad used to tell us stories of how companies would line up in university seeking for graduates to come work for them, it wasn't a matter of how good you were butif you completed everything necessary. But these days it's vice versa.
These days the youths have proven that you don't necessarily need to be fully educated in the higher institutions in order to attain success . I guess things change and in the latter years to come , they'll be something quite different.