Why is education important to someones career?

Answer 1

Some forms of education prepare you with skills and knowledge specific to your career. Others help make you a well-rounded human being and show your intelligence and diligence.

Answer 2

Earning a degree through the right educational institution provides individuals with the basic foundation necessary to succeed in a career and in life. It helps round you out by providing core classes that you might otherwise skip. Earning a degree acts as credentials that give potential employers additional confidence in the candidate as a potential employee.

In business, you are better off having the credentials than not having the credentials because they can be a differentiator if an employer is looking at two otherwise equal candidates for a position.

Answer 3

Actually, most jobs today really don't require much education. The average 8th grader 50 years ago was more literate and knowledgeable of math than most college grads today.

And, most jobs are dumbed up, with computers doing most of the serious work.

If you talk to honest personnel managers, if such a thing exists, you will quickly find that college transcripts are used to narrow down the very large number of people who otherwise would apply for all good-paying jobs.

Most of you adults working in an office job today, my son could have done your job when he was 12, with half his brain tied behind him. That's probably why he's in med school today and you're not.

Answer 4

Education is very important because the boss wants people who know what there doing if a person has more years in collage then they'll do a better job at it because they know what there doing they'll also have a better pay but if someone isnt at coolage that long they wont do a good as job because they really dont know what they're doing

Answer 5

The more 'official' education you have, the more official businesses will want to hire you. Even if you're good, they might want someone with a diploma who has really studied to work for them as opposed to the less educated, sortof 'lucky' guy. Being educated gives you more opportunities.

Answer 6

Would you like cheese on that?

Career- you could work in fast food. Or with a good education, you could afford not to have to eat lunch there!

Answer 7

education is seen as your preparation for a career, so a lack of it would mean that you are not capable of doing something. it is also one of the measures used by employers to evaluate a person applying for a certain position.

Answer 8

and you dont know this why? If you have no education, you have no knowledge of that career/job, if you arent active in groups in highschool and college, colleges and employers will not want to hire you, because they feel that you are not able to be social when the time comes to it, or that you have no obligations to anything, or have a low responsibility. They want responsible people who will stick to their responsibilitis/obligations. hope that helps, and get good grades if your still in school.

Answer 9

The Purpose of Education
The purpose of education is to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed and reasonable decisions. Any other consequences should be treated as merely incidental.

The first means to this end is through the simple gaining of knowledge by memorization of certain key facts, such as the periodic table. This is often necessary, and should not be avoided, but too often it is seen as synonymous with learning.

In his excellent essay, ``Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology,'' William G. Perry, Jr. uses the term ``cow'' to describe ``writ[ing] on the assumption that `a fact is a fact.' ... present[ing] evidence of hard work as a substitute for understanding...'' while using the somewhat more traditional term ``bull'' to mean deception as to the presence of actual data (548).

Perry points out that the emphasis on simply learning mountains of facts ``implies that the standard against which the rightness or wrongness of a fact may be judged exists someplace--perhaps graven upon a tablet in a Platonic world outside and above this cave of tears'' (550). He observes that ``The moralism of sheer work and obedience can be an ethic that, unwilling to face a despair of its ends, glorifies its means'' (551).

``Cow,'' as he calls it, can be more dangerous and harmful than ``bull,'' because it encourages the rote memorization of facts instead of promoting an actual understanding of the subject at hand. Unfortunately, this approach to learning is held by many, both students and teachers.

Another situation that often occurs is that teachers feel a need to have students undergo the same thinking process as themselves, and to arrive at the same conclusion in the same way. John Holt, in his essay, ``How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading,'' explains this as ``a game of wits. I never gave my students an opportunity to say what they really thought about a book'' (455).

Holt describes how many teachers feel the need for students to understand each word right away, again focusing on raw facts, rather than allowing the students to absorb concepts as a whole. He states that ``I now began to see also that books were among the most dangerous things in school. From the very beginning of school we make books and reading a constant source of failure and public humiliation. When children are little we make them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure they `know' all the words they are reading. This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone'' (457).

He goes on to say, ``Before long many children associate books and reading with mistakes, real or feared, and penalties and humiliation. This may not seem sensible, but it is natural'' (458). Tragically, instead of making learning seem natural and possibly even pleasant, the system had destroyed any desire for education his students may have had.

Education is not simply learning things; it is learning to learn things. The clichéd proverb about fishing and learning to fish may have suffered somewhat from overuse, but there is truth to it.

The third temptation that is encountered is to try to create or enforce philisophical conformity through the educational system; witness the attendance recently of a first grade class to an anti-gun rally. Attempts to right social wrongs through the schools are generally well-intentioned, but come perilously close to the line between education and indoctrination.

Historically, opressive regimes have ensured that educational materials, and by extension, students, conformed to politically accepted philosophies and doctrines. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist China (Tofani) are all excellent examples of this.

In the short account, ``By Any Other Name,'' an imperialist British schoolteacher passes on her views to her students, specifically that English names and culture are somehow better than Indian (Rau 465), and that ``Indians cheat'' (Rau 469). Most readers would likely agree that these views had no place in the school, and especially should not have been voiced to small children.

If this is the case, however, what is the difference between this and any current school putting forth our government's views on what kind of thinking about others is and is not acceptable, or what groups, beliefs, and behavior should and should not be tolerated? The short answer, of course, is that ``we'' are right and ``they'' were wrong.

Leaving aside for the moment this argument's rather odd leap in logic, is it even appropriate for an official entity to simply pass on such opinions, right or wrong? It would seem most beneficial for students to form philosophies based on the facts and concepts they absorb, giving them a better context to later support those opinions than simply, ``Because.''

The purpose of education is to enable students to learn for themselves, not to spoon-feed them every fact they will ever need in their lives. Such an attempt is Herculean to the extreme and cannot succeed. Education should encourage students to learn how to make connections between facts, and give them the ability to use this process throughout life.

Answer 10

because, today, EVERYTHING is based on education. In my day, OJT is fine.
Now, do you have a degree or Masters?

They won''t even interview without a degree.