What is more valuable, "experience" or education?

Question

Im not saying more valuable to a coporation. Experience can't teach you the logic behind decisions, if you havent done the math to understand it, to me you havnt understood what you are doing in the greater picture and therefore the better understanding would be education, and really more "experience" even if it isnt "work" related. What do you guys think, and support your answers.

Answer 1

I think that its both kinda equal, I mean without experience you wouldn't get no where and it's the same with education, if you tried to get a job and you had one not the other, then no chance but otherwise then yeah......

Answer 2

Well, if I was hiring for an upper level job, such as financial manager, I'd value experience over education.  You can go to Harvard for 10 yrs and still suck at your job, but if you've held that job for 10 yrs with a previous company, it shows that you know what you're doing.

Experience!  (Our education system isn't very efficient anyways)

Answer 3

both

Answer 4

Majority of people say education but smart people know that experience is the best education there is.

Answer 5

education, your not going to get in anywhere without a good education.

Answer 6

I'll say experience.

remember 80% of stuff we learn in school; we will never probably ever see it again in our work. It just makes us a more well rounded individual in the society.

experience can only be gain through work or training. Eddie Gureeera(watever his name is) our secretary of commerce, he didn't had a oz of college education, yet through experience, he went from a truck driver to a ceo. But it doesn't hurt to have a nice education background, so you have all the logic behind things going on in teh company.

Answer 7

getting work = education

doing work = experience

most people dont use what they learn in college when working (unless they went to graduate school where they experience it). but employers value education a lot.

Answer 8

Educated people create wonderful answers on paper. Experienced people know why there are waste paper baskets.

Answer 9

experience - for ex. actually doing the math through experience is better than reading about it or watching teach blab about it

Answer 10

All the education in the world is no substitute for experience. No amount of classroom learning can prepare you for what really happens, only having been through it or something similar can. Education can explain why certain things 'should' happen, but experience is reality, and what 'should' happen is seldom what 'does' happen.

Answer 11

Dear,

Education is your Base, If you have Good Base then the Experience you will get will be Good and you can understand things in good way.

Regards

Answer 12

both..but keep in mind around the era of WW2 and beyond, many had very little education but kept the country strong with their good work ethic,and life experiences. Today most managers are happy if they can keep an employee six months, after going to the expense of training them(to do something their parents/grandparents would've already known how to do, in their day).....so, what happened? I personally have young people in the family chain with their masters degree's in various fields, around 25, and couldn't repair a faucet if it was flooding their home and their life depended on it.....so you tell me which is more important?

Answer 13

Education.

Because if you are educated about something then you will have a better experience with it so..by having a good education about it first will then give you the good experience or atleast a better experience.

Answer 14

both go hand in hand.  The more you experience life the more you learn.  You can read every book known to man.  Know all the small details that the majority of us do not know...but if you don't get out and live...all of that knowledge just goes to waste.

Answer 15

Experience >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... Education

Answer 16

it really depenz because i can show you where just an education with no experience gets you a job paying 125k

Answer 17

education without education you would probably be poor.

Answer 18

experience