Education is a must in today's high powered society that is
hunger for paper qualification. But of course, this paper
qualificaiton requires one to be flexible as well. The holder of
this qualification have to posess other non-academic qualities,
such as interpersonal relationship, well spoken english (at least
fluent) and the list goes on.
Put it this way, without education, i will loose out to those who
have. But even if i have a paper qualification, i may not be at a
great advantage bcos there are a lot more others who have the same,
if not better and higher qualificaion than me.
Hence, i would say that paper qualificaiton is just a passport to
the real world in order for us to have a "respectable" job. After
we are secured of a job, the rest depends on how the individual is
able to cope with. Remember that studying and working are 2 very
different kind of "jobs". Some might be able to excel in one, but
not the other.
Although there is a very strong correlation between education and
income, it is not always the case. In the past ppl with low
education still managed to be high income earners. Take Bill Gates
for example, he dropped out from Havard, but still is the world's
richest man.
Personally i feel that besides education, opportunity and luck
still played a great role in determining whhether one will succeed
in future.
Hence, the importance of education is still a very open-ended
question subjected to debate. We shall see what the others got to
say... ...
[This message has been edited by yoohoo (edited 06 April
2000).]
