A person needs education and the accompanying required learnt knowledge to succeed
To be (generally) very successful they need the equivalent to a degree so as to have all historical and engineering knowledge, plus practical experience, but a person with a degree and no experience is simply as thick as a brick and a failure
There are far too many IMHO who get a degree in today's failed education system whom I would not employ to build a chook house and tout themselves as fonts of all knowledge
To be good, excellent at anything you need experience............ full stop
Today's problem is the lack of proper training, lack of enthusiasm to get those skills, no recognition for those skills. no payment for those skill, we live in a legally controlled homogenized society where all are equal regardless of their work and ability
So speaks a successful qualified engineer with diploma's no degree, plus worlds of experience
A poster on HC who works with them, stated that today's graduates show no interest in anything, so without that urgent curiosity to know, to improve, they are never going to develop any potential regardless of having that nice bit of paper--- a degree
It has to be remembered that there are about 5% to 8% of people who seem to be born with a multitude of skills and ability, the vast majority find it hard to get these skills and it requires a good work ethic, good teachers and a good system supported by government for them to be very successful and in today's Australian society they are all sadly lacking
