the importance education?

Answer 1

Knowledge and job skills.
Some jobs require specific knowledge and schooling is the only way to prove you got it. You can't learn everything on the job and employers might skip important information and only teach what you need that week.
I got a 2 year degree in accounting and got the same job as two other women with no education. Because I had been to school I understood what we were taught at work instead of doing as I was told. Education didn't teach me to do the actual work, I didn't learn to run a 10key or how to do sales and payroll taxes or personal income taxes but over the years working in different accounting firms my education paid off in little ways.
I got my 4 year degree 20 years later and even if it seemed I didn't learn anything useful sometimes little things are remembered that might make me a better employee.
Of course you can learn almost anything you want to know on your own but you may not know what you want to know until you know it.

Answer 2

An "Education" is somewhat meaning less the way society deems it. I learn everything some one else teaches me, I move to the next level, I get a job based on those skills I learned, and then I learn what my boss teaches me. It is a cyclic process that ends in clones, not innovation.

True education is learning how you learn and educating yourself from there. There are so many resources available for free to young people today. That education truly does mean POWER, if you know how you best learn information. You can honestly be anything you want. In many cases you can create your own global market. We should forget about what happened to George Washington for a week and worry about what happened to learning about how we learn.

Answer 3

Being able to have a job and raise a family is only the pragmatic or "real world" side of education. What matters more is the development it makes inside you.

Education primarily serves to broaden your paradigms. It teaches you to make good choices. When you are becoming educated, you are learning how to learn. Education is not about knowing more, it is about becoming better.

Education is about instilling in you the desire to overcome ignorance in life and become better, even if it would require a lot of knowledge, skills and work from you. It is all about becoming intelligent so as to lead a better life.

Of course, you have all the secondary results of education -- you are able to get a good job, have lots of money in the bank, have an awesome wife, raise healthy kids, retire without worry, et cetera.

"If you think education is too expensive, try ignorance" -- Derek Bob

Answer 4

If you're equating education with formal schooling, then I think it's overrated and unimportant, except for pieces of paper which are mandatory in the workmarket. Truth and real knowledge are not acquired in the classroom but rather, out here in the real world. As Simon & Garfunkel mused, "When I think of all the crap I learned in High School, it's a wonder I can ---- at all."

Answer 5

I am sixty years old. I majored in Nuclear Physics and Mathematics in undergraduate school, and business for my masters and PhD.

The most important piece of education I ever learned was taught to me by my Mother-in-Law:

"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts".

Answer 6

nowadays if u have no education, your life will become nothing as everything(job,skills, etc) need education..