The Value of Education and Experience in Society
The debate over who is more valuable between educated and those who learn through experience has ensued for sometimes with different sides offering different views in support of either side. Does education or work experience offer more returns in the society? Education and experience in recent times can be termed to go hand in hand, however, with an increasing number of peoples accessing education, experience has, in turn, become an integral determinant of securing a job today. As the number of people graduating from the universities increases, the job opportunities have not increased at the same rate (Cornelia and Ştefănescu 178). This has consequently led to the establishment of the best way to get the best for the few available chances. Despite the role played by professional experience today, the power of education in the society can hardly be ignored. Yes, the educated people are valuable in the society, though the role of experience and skill can hardly be ignored completely. This essay discusses the value of educated people in the society compared to experience.
The Role of Experience in Society
Despite education contributing tremendously in the recent job description and ability to survive in the highly competitive job specification, experienced skills also are believed to be an integral factor that determines a society's ability to adapt to the fast-changing world. For example, a doctor needs to be first educated before engaging in handling patients. However, he becomes more effective as he teams up with the skilled employees in the medical field who contribute to smooth operations in medical facilities, like dressers and manual workers depicting their importance however minimal (Apple " Michael 2012).
Educated People and Job Opportunities
First and foremost, educated people have more opportunities presenting themselves which automatically translate to a better job and income. This is primarily because they possess a certificate that verifies their state of having acquired education and most of the time that is what counts. On the contrary, the experience skilled counterparts mostly work in temporal employments that are deemed simple or heavily intensive manual work like in fields. Education attracts more earnings guaranteeing a higher life quality, better food and most likely a longer lifespan as compared to the experienced. In addition, our earnings dictate the social status one is accorded in the society. As wrong as it may sound, more money earns one more respect from other people as it is the case with high white collar job earners and consequently blue collar job fellows enjoy a lower social status.
Mentality and Education
Secondly, with regard to the mentality case, the educated people are believed to be open-minded and the experienced group as closed-minded. Indeed that is the truth because they hold an advantage of vast knowledge about many disciplines since they are not only technically educated but also culturally (Cornelia and Ştefănescu 180). They are able to view the world from different perspectives via the education they possess. Likewise, educated parents mentor their children to get educated and go beyond them to ensure they are better armed to face this dynamic world where development, discovery, and interventions never stop. On the contrary, most of the experienced people nurture their kids without fostering the education importance mentality which makes them less fit to adapt to the ever-changing world (Barnett " Ronald 1994).
Educated People and Adaptability
Thirdly, educated people in our societies are more adaptable owing to the abilities, skills, and knowledge earned through the education process. Most often, employers associate the mentioned competencies with the ability to analyze work-related problems, conduct research and brainstorming the solutions. Also, they perceive the educated as those with the ability to synthesize complex subject matter, as more motivated and self-driven and most importantly as a people with better interpersonal skills. As so, the educated people are considered assets by both the employers and the society at large (Apple " Michael 2012). Skills that are beneficial to society include carpentry and joinery, farming skills, entrepreneurship, operating machines among others. These skills need not be taught in class but can be acquired as a result of practice via a simple sense. One is required to be alert to grasp the operations and display ability to translate ideas in a manner that will bore fruits, enabling them to raise families since they exercise a lot of constancy and strength. This way, they take most out of their limited opportunities benefiting the society (Barnett " Ronald 1994).
The Value of Both Education and Experience in Society
As the debate on who the society values more between the educated or the skilled continues, advantages pegged on education are immense. While it is clear that we cannot all receive the level of education desired, the division between the two groups- educated and experienced will remain. Either way, they both have positive contributions to the society that should not be ignored (Chop Shop, 2007). The society should exercise tolerance because the diversity is actually enriching whereas delving into divisive approaches make us end up losing valuable experiences from the experience skilled cadre. Further, the society should stop promoting ambitious and selfish sentiments that make the educated want to improve their lives even more but instead instill the virtue of contentment and simplicity in all. Truly, the educated must blend with the experienced to get societies to develop and co-exist smoothly.
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Barnett, Ronald. The limits of competence: knowledge, higher education, and society. Open University Press, 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, 1994.
Cornelia, Blaga and Ştefănescu Florica. "Work, Education, Society. Interdependence and Complementarity." Annals of the University of Oradea, Economic Science Series, vol. 25, no. 2, Dec. 2016, pp. 174-181.
