“Do you know the difference between
education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience
is what you get when you don't.” - Pete Seeger
People often debate the supremacy of
education over experience, and vice versa. The topic generates a lot of heat as
there are different schools of thought.
Before we come to conclusion, let us look at the pros and cons of education
and experience in this regard.
Education gives you knowledge, skills
and abilities. It opens the door to the outside world. It builds you tons of confidence to take on
several challenges head-on. It also
provides you with employment opportunities and you can earn your livelihood out
of it. On the other hand, experience
gives you confidence to handle tasks effectively apart from enhancing your gut
feelings. There are people without
elementary education who made it big in their lives due to their experience. But most of them regretted not having
education. Some of them felt that they
would have done better if they had education.
Presently the working executives
realized the importance of higher education, and are doing various courses to
support their experience in order to scale the corporate ladder quickly. Since
competition is stiff the working executives find pursuing various courses is
beneficial to ensure their quick career success.
When you look at college dropouts like
Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, it is clear that
they are successful as entrepreneurs. At the same time, we cannot rush to
conclusion that educated people don’t succeed as entrepreneurs. Similarly,
there are people who excelled without formal education. These people learned
through a hard way by trial and error method and learned bitter lessons in life
and succeeded finally.
If education enhances Intelligence
Quotient (IQ), experience enhances Emotional Quotient (EQ). You need to blend
both education and experience to excel as an effective leader. A rich experience
without any education and a rich education without any experience creates
imbalance among the individuals. Therefore, those who have good education must
complement with experience and those who have great experience must complement
with good education to achieve success in their lives. To sum up, right and judicious blend of
education and experience will take you towards your quick career success.
“A mind that is stretched by a new
experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.
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