Formal education. Overrated?

[cheekwit]

There are many ways to acquire knowledge, formal education is an important way, but ultimately it's just one option.

Certainly, but I do feel that it requires good research skills in order to educate yourself. My partner is excellent at it... whereas i do better in a structured lesson plan and hands-on classroom style form of education.

It is obviously very dependant on the skill being learned and the individual.

[Noverteno]

Education of a person is still very important for the overall formation of a person’s worldview. The ability to earn in this world is not the main thing in our life. We come to this world to enhance our spirituality, and this also comes largely from universal education.

[mlawson71]

I think that expanding your horizons, learning more about yourself and about the world at large is never overrated.

[mlawson71]

I think one can learn a lot of useful things through formal education.

[Payme21]

I'm a student in this school of thought and very sure that in no distant future, we will experience a revolution in this regard. Not saying formal education will be totally relegated but I see it undergoing much needed changes so as to raise its ultimate use in life

[ShadowCrypto]

Yes it is, Alot of people do the formal education and become idiots, don't think by ourselves and more, Schools are made to create machines for our system, and not to be creative and think outside the box.

[Delgboke]

I think the reason is because in some place they don't value those that have the formal education because there's no physical things to show that they're really educated but for me formal education is not bad.

[mlawson71]

Different places have different values, and unfortunately a lot of people aren't taught to value non-material things.

[Akicage]

I think it's really depends overall, if you do want to take degree in medicine in something like that we should really stop that totally and completely anyway. I hope we can really make it possible from many many matters. Law also, but it also takes some research.

[mlawson71]

People can find fulfillment in many times of education, not just medicine and law, I think.

[mlawson71]

We'd live in a boring world if that was the case.

[gabbie2010]

Formal education is important but the world is gradually changing to skills orientated such that some courses taught in the universities is becoming irrelevant and obsolete,  there are a lot of programmers are self taught who have never been to the university besides crypto traders who makes huge profits most of them are acquire the skills themselves or with mentorship thus acquiring a formal education is just to read and write while you develop yourself with any relevant skill.

[Sahillatif78]

Yes formal education is necessary. But people are not interested in getting this. It also depends upon univerties or schools.

[mohdelayo]

I do not believe that formal education could be overrated in any way. However its very true that many of the disciplines in which people struggle to acquire knowledge on has to a large extent became obsolete with no real world application of the knowledge. This thus cause some people to believe they just wasted their precious time on going to school. But on the other hand, what can one say about acquiring knowledge in engineering and medical line? Could knowledge in these fields be termed as obsolete?

[Mas Bro]

It all depends on a person in how to react. But I believe formal education is important because we can learn many things. But there is something more important, namely moral and moral education that we must instill in us and our children from an early age. Because someone without good morals and morals will easily fall into and be damaged.