Is education Important? What is the definition of success?

I'll start off to say there has to be made a difference between happiness and success. Someone can be very succesfull in life meaning they have a lot of money, a job that pays them well or an own company, they have a family, a nice care; they seem to have it all. This doesn't neccesairly mean they are happy though. Considering it's getting harder to get employed, and I'm not even talking about the higher paying jobs but merely getting employed, it's a good thing to finish an education as it will get you up the ladder of employment. However, if you love to sweep streets and nothing makes you happier in the world, why should this men or woman get a higher education? A boy from my city finished gymnasium and university and wanted to become a truck driver more than anything in the world and so he did. Why did he get his diploma's? Because it might come in handy sometime but it's not where his heart lies. I think in society at the time being the only way of having financial succes is with: a) good education b) own company c) winning the lotery d) adult entertainment e) investments (but of course you need both $ and luck for that)

education is important but what kind of education you mean? let's put it this way.. success doesn't depend on the level of education but on it's type.. to educate a carpenter on how to make good wood work is a success plan.. to educate a tailor how to sue well is a success planing.. to longly educate a doctor to become a good doctor is a success plan.. so not ( Total ) education is needed in here rather than " selective " education on each individual ability will lead eventually to success... so be good at what you do.. that's success..

To mee an education is very, very important! An education is not essential for success but it does help. There are a few people in this world, apparently your boss being one of them, that are naturally gifted in business. When a person owns his own business then there really is no limitations on education as money talks. But to try to get into a business then you had better either have either higher education or specialized education. I hope that this has answered your question and HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!

Education is very important nowadays. Even you want to get a job, you have to sow your certificates. If there is no education in a person, I think the person don't even know any words, how to survive in this world? But to achieve a successful life, there's no necessary to have a high education. The most important to have a bright brain. But for sure the successful person will have a certain level of education, so that they wouldn't be chested easily.

a quote on success.. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer regarding about education, i believe, we all need to learn and study.. although it is true that experience is the best teacher, having a formal education builds every aspect in us. it lets us know our dreams, and share this dream to others. let's not be ignorant about things. education is a must! love it!=) well, education does not guarantee success that's for sure.. but education guarantee vision, may it be anything else. its just a matter of self conviction and motivation whether to pursue that vision or not.

I agree to a point that education is a key to success, but I have found over the years that life skills are one of the most important item we can attain throughout our lives which enables us to deal with many situations that education alone would not see us through. Life skills can be obtained in many ways also not just by living a long time as this just proves you have lived here for many years it doesnt show you have experienced and learnt. I feel by placing yourselve in many varied and diverse situations and areas of life you gain so much more than education alone can teach you and also invaluable skills that allow you to handle and learn from. I think we as individuals determine how successful we will be by the effort and tenacity we show throughout our lives. Defining success is different for everyone, a stay home mother might be extremely successful in her life even though she probably has never worked in the actual workforce and an athlete may be very successful in their chosen area and these are mainly due to tenacity, endurance and focus on what and where they want to be in their lives. I think the definition of success is an individuals own interpretation on success and how it makes us feel and not how we are judged by others.

A degree is a social status. It is a prelude toward other things. Over here in my country, even if a degree is just a piece of paper, if you don't have it, you don't have it. Full stop. A degree is important to the extend that the employer is willing to give work to you even if you do not have the trained background. It is not fair, but it is reality.

Having an education will always differentiate you from others who do not when applying for certain roles in life. I have made this statement interestingly enough as a person who is NOT educated beyond High School (And JUST scraped through High School too by the way!) yes have held my own to date in a highly competitive industry. I am surrounded by degree holders with such qualifications as MBA's, PhD's, Engineering degrees, computer sciences and many others; but thankfully I am a voracious reader and absorb information pretty well so to be honest very few of them are aware at all that I am not educated like they are. I am fortunate enough to travel the world as a Vice President of a an international company and have lived in four countries to date and conducted business in many more. Would having a degree help me grow further? Absolutely! But I also have this character flaw where every time I try to entertain the possibility of embracing studies; I never see it through. I guess I don't relate well to "organized" education and prefer to learn things at my own pace! Maybe one day I will get there! As for the definition of success..... Success for me is a sense of accomplishment and a sense of well being and stability in your life when you realize that you are somewhat in control of all aspects of your life such as career, family and friends; and you are respected for who you are and what you have achieved throughout your life in parallel. I defy anyone to argue that success has anything to do with money or riches! It does not. You can have all the money in the world yet be a complete failure as a human being! The last thing I can say about this is in regards to time. I often look back and realize that many years have passed me by that I cannot get back. If I had of USED these years to actually get a degree it would be over and done with by now! Time goes by regardless so make the most of it!

I think education is the basic criteria to have a successful career. also its not the case that all peopel who are very sucsess ful in life are all very educated. but nothing can't ahppen without proper education. there may be exceptins, but it is needed.

There are a lot of questions being asked in your post. And all of them are great and relevant. Success is defined by one's goals. It measures the level of achievement that we have. Education plays a great part of defining success. Other people's success may not be how others would see it. Education equips people to reach their goals. It guides them to target better goals. It is important, but there are other factors - luck, skill, the environment, etc. Some people may be lucky and fortunate enough to acquire wealth without education. But this is not a universal thruth. Success is not defined by how much money we have. It is defined on how much we have on the things that we value most - may it me money or education or family or relationship. Good day!

Success behind hard work and make challenge to achieve goel, who really don't know the reading and writing they may be high positions in many sectors, one of the bussiness man below high school and running the whole factory where around 200 employes working with them, in that case no need for higher education they need to dare to work active and awareness for run the companies, if they have the mind which can help to make good administrator then he may do any thing without education, if he could have higher education with his abilities then he may become more success bussiness man. And other side you need to have higher education in this compitition market and society.

in earlier days education was not important but nowadays education in life has become very important your boss might have got a huge financial support from his family or friends but in todays times life's become a mess just a mess and you have to struggle each and every part of yourself to reach your destination i know many people have become successful in life without education but today it has changed if you dont have education you r ruined .so just dont go to non education ways you need education

Yes i strongly believe education is important. Well yes you could, success could mean alot of things like fulfilling your lifelong dream which could well be a waitor for example. It is you who determines what success is i guess, it depends really on what you want and what will you be happy with. It doesnt matter what everyone else thinks and says, it is really up to you what you want to do and you know what makes you happy. Thank you

Education is important. Absolutely. However, there are different types of education, not just academic. If a person has friends and family to teach them how to be a good person, how to develope a good work ethic, how to function well in society, then that is a good basic education. So many people nowadays seem not to have this support. Success should be defined as achievement resulting in contentment. Money is nice, but it is true when it is said you can't buy happiness. And look at all those graduates working in supemarkets. If you are happy with your life, and with the personal path you are on, that is success. If only people stopped to appreciate what they already have, less people would be frustrated and unhappy.

The defition of success is when some one has truly come into contact with their determinates of their life aspirations. Those who truly believe that what they have worked for has been gained... for those who have true faith in what they believe. So there is truly more than one meaning there are many it just depends on what you believe your life goals are and if you have achieved them and/or have set steps to achieve them.

You're right without education it'll be more difficult. But still, I believe your boss since he already had earned his way to the top.

In my opinion education is still important in becoming successful because it is still our foundation on what we'll do in our life and in out career. Your boss is just "lucky" that's why he become successful without enough education. Not all people that doesn't finish their studies become like your boss. Still, the percentage of people who doesn't finished their studies and become successful in life is small compared to the people who finished their studies and become successful. Every people has skills, it only depends on how and if you'll use it. Yes your boss become successful in his life maybe because he is just really good on what he is doing. Maybe he's that good that he doesn't need to have education to become good at it. Not people are like that. Anyway, lets just do what we do best and the success will just came along. Good luck!

Well I have to tell that I'm a teacher and i believe that the education is the most important thing in any society. I know some decades before, it was easier to success without an special education, but now it's different, people who study have more oportunities than those people who don't have any kind of specialization.

Education is important for me because without education we will not be as successful as we are now. Other people would say that education is not that important I will not agree with them. Though you are a successful businessman and you are not educated, during meetings you cannot interact with those people who are highly educated because you didn't understand the flow of the business. So it is really difficult for a person who are not educated to minggle with those who are educated person.

I think the definition of education varies. I won't define education as something you can only get in school there are many ways to acquire skill and knowledge.But without skill I don't think one can get ahead. One way or another,one has to be good at something. good question!