Experience vs Education, who should win?

Question

Is Experience better than Education or visa versa...
you can give your own thoughts that whom helped you the most for being a Successful Coder.

Answer 1

What if I told you, that proper education is also a form of experience, and experience is also a form of education?

Answer 2

love the discussion here:) don't you think that the concept of education has changed significantly over the last few years... the traditional classrooms are boring, good schools shift to project-based learning... young people prefer to travel and try different things to learn... so seems like edu is experience, experience is edu... another question comes to mind here - is SoloLearn an experience or education?:)

Answer 3

experience without education is time loss
education without experience reason to forget
education and experience together the best 🖒

Answer 4

Both are connected to each other to be complete. So both are on the same side and no one wins. They complete each other.

Answer 5

Education is basic thing required to gain Experience No Education No Experience

Answer 6

i give education 30% and experience 70% but without education we won't succeed in our experiences because we have to learn something first if we want to understand what we can do and complete it with our ideas that we collect from those experiences

Answer 7

both are like parellel wire to each othe,
you can't get electricity from socket until you have put both terminals in the socket!!

Answer 8

It is same as question ,What came first, the chicken or the egg?   I can say lot for experience, but you have to have an education to get the experience. 😃
As Education is important but only learning is not useful according to me. Knowing about one particular work and doing practice is an actual learning or education as we see in coding!!!
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That is the reason these days in many fields are preferring the candidates who are experienced not degrees
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Work experience is always better than education because once you start working know then you will come to know what results it will give and what difficulties it has to be face
Great discussion!!!!!🍓🍓🍉🍅🍎👍👏👐👋🤛🍒🍑🍐🍎🍓

Answer 9

I disagree with most of the answers on here as I'm self taught and learned how to program by reading documentation. I already knew how to program in many different languages before I found sololearn, I use this app as a reference if I forget how to do something in a programming language.

Nobody taught me to program, so am I "self educated" or have I learned through experience? I say experience.

Answer 10

Like most answers experience and education both go hand in hand. You take the first step with education and then climb the stairs with experience. To have an experience you don't necessarily need an education but to have an education you need someone else's experience.

So if the question arises as to what came first then, it was experience first which became an education for others.

Answer 11

they are integral we need both of them

Answer 12

Gimme that best answer w_arafat nailed it!

Answer 13

well I think experience is better than education because thought education gives you an insight knowledge but you might not be able to apply it. while for experience you will get to know more and in most case be educated. And also experience covers both education and knowing more because not all can be taught.

Answer 14

We want both of them to win.🙋

Answer 15

Both r related to each other

Answer 16

It's a paradox!

Answer 17

Both are important for me...Loved the community as always the ques.:)

Answer 18

experience with minimum required education is best ,actually they both are different education let us to think in many ways to solve a problem like easy way or innovative way education without experience do not work out practically finally i want to say is education gives confidence to servive in job where as experience makes us master piece at work

Answer 19

I am a graduate of a coding bootcamp. Before attending the bootcamp I had very limited practice experience and no real world experience in software development. I attended the bootcamp for three months and landed my first dev job three weeks after completing the course. The entire purpose of these kind of courses is to provide real-world-type experience and create job candidates that actually have the skills necessary to step into a dev team and be efficient, effective and beneficial. This is a problem companies have had with new CS grads. They can't really code the way they're needed to code. The on-boarding process just takes too long.

So, for me an education built out of experience was definitely the right way to go. I have been a professional software engineer now for just about three years and I get multiple calls every week from employers and recruiters wanting me to read over job descriptions for senior engineering positions.

This path worked great for me and I now do mentoring as a side job for students coming through the bootcamp I attended (Coder Foundry) and I have seen them, one after the other, launch new careers as software/web developers, using the real world skills they obtained in the bootcamp.

Answer 20

we get experience from education

increase in knowledge also increases the experience