Education and Money

@kolsti87 (521)
United States
January 13, 2011 11:53am CST
Do you think education is the path to money or money is the path to education? Many would argue that a solid education is the first step to advancing yourself in life. A big part of advancing yourself in life, is of course, making money. Doing well in schooling helps open doors down the financial road with career opportunities. On the other hand, many see money as the path to education. They believe that making money will lead to opportunities such as college and various paid seminars. Even informational books or computer programs nowadays require money. I guess it really all depends on what your final goal is. What do you wish to do with your life? Do you wish to make money or do you wish to enlighten and educate yourself? Or do you believe that they are not exactly mutually exclusive? Please share your views on this subject.
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16 responses
• Sweden
14 Jan 11
No its no path to money.
• Sweden
14 Jan 11
I Also guess it deppends abit from country to country but the richest people ive known in my life probably didnt go to school at allmost.
• Philippines
18 Jan 11
You are talking of education as an institution and as a business. It is true that education is not exactly free - unless of course, you are considering public education (which the law decrees should be accessible to each citizen). In your piece, I would say that there is no chicken or egg in the tradition of which comes first. True, educational institutions demand monetary compensation for their services but they also provide instruction, programs and equipments that can help to achieve in career success. Virtually everything in this world is a some form of business transaction, so the commercialization of education is unexpected. However, I would like to return to the old adage of 'the best lessons in life is free and usually, out of the schoolroom."
14 Jan 11
I do believe that education can help you to make money but then again so many people have made money through ideas and things just just thought up themselves and have gone from being a cleaner for instance to a millionaire so i suppose it can work both ways
• Malaysia
14 Jan 11
Yes,education is the path to money if you are not born rich. I fully agree with you that a solid education will put you on a higher pedestal of life. A good degree gives you a better chance to high paying jobs. No, you can get a scholarship to get into university to obtain a good degree if you do not have sufficient private funds.
14 Jan 11
Oh, yeah! You have to learn to understand the consequence of these two words which many people have been confused for years! Today, I just wanna show you how it works and encourage some people who are not happy that they were born in a poor family. You don't have a chance to grab money to put in your pocket right away on the day you were born, but you do have one best chance to grab and let money run back to you and that best chance must be an Education.
• Brazil
14 Jan 11
i think education is the path to money because you can learn without pay nothing but when you know the stuff you can win money and keep winning
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
13 Jan 11
Categorizing Criminals - The price of tuition
Education costs money. This is why I had to take off some time from school; I simply could not afford it. It is really ridiculous because I didn't get good enough grades for scholarships and my parents "expected family contribution" is too high for me to get any grants or anything, despite the fact that they really aren't helping me at all with it, which is evident in my not going to school.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
14 Jan 11
I would have to say that education is the path to miney. Without a good education, making a good income can be a bit more difficult to come by. If money was the path to education, a lot of opportunity would be lost.
@pogi253 (1586)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
I think it depends on the people. I frequently look at the people who didn't go to university. In several cases, these were labeled stupid at school. The troublesome one at the back. Nearly all were not bright enough to go to university or they have no money to go to school so they were forced out of education and became entrepreneurial thinkers educating themselves in the real world. We are all aware of the qualities and achievement of high profile entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Bill Gates who decided for what ever reason that they preferred the education of life as opposed to studying "industrial age theories". There are however, thousands of people you will never have heard of, for instance: Robert Braithwaite left school with no qualifications at the age of 14. He is now worth $130 million, Charlie Mullins owns a plumbing business and is worth $14 million, and Lawrence Graff left school at 13 and is now worth $2 billion. I am not supporting that education is a waste of time. I am all for encouraging people to be the best they can in terms of education. What I am stating here though is some areas of the education system have to change. We have to educating in finance and free thinking and not in how to become "good employees". Being good employees will simply put you in the hands of the state, surely this is not what you work all of your life for?
@SilverKing (1003)
• Canada
13 Jan 11
I think that you should only choose a job that you are interested in and will enjoy doing.People choose jobs just based on money all the time and they do get paid a high salary but they dread their job and every moment that they spend at their workplace they just are counting down the minutes till their shift is over.I feel that even if the job pays less money it is better to choose something that you can have fun at and are interested in.
• India
13 Jan 11
Education is simple to make yourself acknowledged with some specialty so that you can enhance yourself in the society. Education also opens the doors of money and career but at the same time now a days in order to pursue education in a proper manner you require good amount of money. So I completely agree with you that education and money are two sides of a coin.
• India
14 Jan 11
Neither of them...we simply cant relate both of them. stdy may help us make money but it may not make sense when we think that only for money,we studied.
@murtaza45 (173)
• India
14 Jan 11
education must be completed life change career to depend me.education is career path of present to me some education to life.i am not edacution but some hire not degree possible not high college high degree to not possibel high education.some people say career must be life change me.so i am pure time life change me.
• India
14 Jan 11
yea without education nothing can be done to earn money except doing the illegal activities ?? well i go on with education leads to earn money but am not sayin that money is not path to education it has also become an source.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
13 Jan 11
Education should be the most important thing but as I near the end of my working life, I often get conflicting views on this. For example, the roma or gypsies in this country seem to be far better off than those who have educated themselves and work hard. A person with a "diploma" is in much more demand than a college graduate. Even bus drivers have the luxury of being able to go on strike several days per week without financial hardship. Something is very wrong with the world!
@BeetleBam (171)
• United States
13 Jan 11
Personally I believe the cost of higher education is way to high. You end up spending a hundred thousand dollars or more to get a good job so you can pay off the loans you had to get for the education in in the first place. Money can certainly buy education (look at Harvard), and you can have some very well educated people that make very little money. In the end it's not about how much money or education you have, though. It's about what you do with it.