Academic Edu Vs Pratical Fields

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Reseachers have discovered lately that the achievement in college or university has nothing to do with the sucess in job. In other words, it can not be assumed that a student with good grades will perform well when he or she has to go and work in real life because life is much more complex than the the subjects ( curriculum) offered in colleges and universities.


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If so, what about our trying to gain degrees like B.A,B.Sc,M.A,M.Sc,Ph.D ....etc ?

Please tell me your opinions on this.

Thanks!:)

[jkd]

Different types of intelligence, some which don't translate too well from one area to another. If someone can stick it through 4 years of college (and more), however, I'd have more confidence (in general, being an Education Studies major I'm well aware of discrepencies in this reasoning) in their dedication than a high school dropout.

Also, knowledge can't entirely be discounted by experience either -- as evidenced by the surge of "computer programmers" who couldn't tell you the first thing about algorithm analysis or graph theory or machine language. These people will write inferior code to people who have studied these subjects in college (or at least read Knuth).

[drhowarddrfine]

Don't get confused. The paragraph is saying that just because you do well in school it doesn't mean you do well on the job. It is not saying that getting a degree is bad or good.

You need to get knowledge for your job from somewhere. Sometimes the most convenient is a school and sometimes it's on the job. There are some great self-trained programmers and some lousy self-trained wannabees.

The big difference is desire. A lot of people got into computers because "games are cool" but then they found there was a lot more involved than playing games but mom and dad already paid tuition and they said they were getting a degree in this field and it's too late to turn back now. Those become the lousy programmers with a degree. Another type is the kind that knew engineers/programmers got the big bucks so that's what they were going to do.

The sad thing is there are a lot of employers who don't care. They say, ok, you have a degree? You're in. The Gates/Job/Wozniaks wouldn't make it applying for a job at most tech companies today and those companies would be a lot worse off without them. But these are the kinds of guys who want to do this kind of work with a serious passion. They need a job in the field to fuel that fire but not too many companies are willing do that. That's why there is such a problem with degree mills and phony items on applications.