Is education and academics more important than emotional and social skills in developing children?

Question

And why do you think so?

Answer 1

Both qualities are of equal importance and sad to say you seldom find people who possess them on equal footing.

The world has yet to reach a stage where everyone has equal and fair access to academic opportunities. In some under developed countries, education isn't of primary importance to most parents. This does not mean the parents doesnt love their children as compared to parents in the more developed nation. Its just that access to eduaction is simply to far out to reach them.

Can children deprived from eduaction lead an economically productive life ? Off course they can. One of the richest man in Malaysia is an illiterate !

Children learn by mimicking their parents. If the parents has high EQ, high chances that this will pass thru their children. With a strong social skill, human can create boundless opprotunities. We are social being and our sucess in our endeavour relies as much on our intelligence as to support and interaction with other human beings.

Children can grew and lead a happy life with or without academic qualification but not if they possessed a negative attitude towards their fellow human beings.

Answer 2

Not in my opinion.

Education and academics are wonderful as far as they go, but focusing entirely on them risks creating a person who can be creative but completely unable to use that creativity.

In any worthwhile human endeavor there are other human beings involved. With a few notable exceptions, even artists - a notoriously asocial group - require the help or interaction of other human beings.

Humans are a social species. Our success as a species depends as much on our ability to help each other as it does on our individual accomplishments. Moreover, some of these "individual accomplishments" build heavily on the work of others. I believe it was Sir Isaac Newton who said, "If I have seen further, it's because I stood on the shoulders of giants". Certainly no one could fault his education and academic accomplishments, but he recognized the value of other human beings.

Emotional and social skills are not, IMO, really separable from education and academics. Try this: take a class from a highly respected professor, all through the course disrespect his opinions and accomplishments, get an A in the course. Seems unlikely? Yes. It's an extreme example of my point, but even without that extreme you do need the help of said professor to understand the material given so that you can (presumably) fairly earn an A.

All through our schooling our interactions with our teachers affect what and how we learn. A lack of social skills can quickly become a liability in our ability to pursue educational and academic accomplishments.

Answer 3

many times experience yet, the capture in it quite is getting the possibility to artwork on the experience. additionally it relies upon on the interest, some jobs are get right of entry to point the place you artwork your way up, others do no longer enable absolutely everyone to get in the direction of the door without a minimum of a certificates. or maybe once you do get the interest, counting on what that's, think ofyou've have been given to maintain doing little classes. So i could say experience is substantial first and optimal, yet, you may only bypass so some distance with it. besides the reality that that's the comparable with college stages, some human beings graduate and then could do voluntary artwork experience till they're stable sufficient to be paid!

Answer 4

All of the skills you mention are important for children to learn. To say that one group is more important than another seems to suggest that you feel that the two groups are incompatible; in fact, I believe that each complements then other.

Answer 5

No, you or your children need both and acquiring them are not mutually exclusive. Concentrating one or the other, unless your is lacking in one and not the other, will not help them throughout life.