Is it necessary? higher education? Most of those who received higher education, and then came to the conclusion that they do not need it, begin anti-propaganda of education. And often they don’t even realize that they themselves were the cause of the unsatisfactory experience. How is this possible? I want to tell you in this article.

For skeptics of higher education, I just ask you to read to the end and answer the questions. And if, after answering the questions, you still believe that higher education is “evil,” then I am very seriously ready to delve into this issue and consider your arguments.

So, why did the topic arise? IN Lately I increasingly hear and see, especially on the Internet, a lot of anti-advertising for higher education. And since I myself am in the system, I know it from the inside, it seems to me that I can talk about it, scold and praise it. And in general I have the right to raise this issue.

Is higher education necessary: ​​oh, these examples

For example, I came across the following statements:

• First you work for your record, then nowhere
• Mom's bedtime stories: you'll graduate from school, you'll graduate from university, you'll find Good work and everything will be fine

The network is full of information and articles about how many eminent, famous people, more often businessmen and innovators reached heights. At the same time, they dropped out of university or school and did not receive a higher education. Like, why is it needed, why waste years on an incomprehensible pastime, if later it is not needed.

It’s hard and often painful for me to look at these statements. After all, they are addressing young people, these statements are being paid attention to by schoolchildren who still have to make a choice. And the sad thing is that such powerful, memorable, often provocative phrases and thoughts can direct a young, unformed personality onto the wrong path and confuse them. Why?

1. Think for yourself. As a percentage, how many stories are there? successful people who, having dropped out of universities, achieved success? Hundredths of a percent. Did anyone count those who graduated from university and became successful?

Nobody talks about the education of these people. This is not interesting, not provocative! How many are there? The following figures are often cited (and by the way, it is still unknown where this came from) that about 30-40% of successful and rich people do not have a higher education. Yes, good number! But the remaining 60-70% are with higher education, and not vice versa. Statistics are in favor of education.

Many people don’t even think that successful projects were formed precisely thanks to education.

Here's just a small list.

• Google is the result of the scientific development of its student founders Larry Page And Sergei Brin. Their developments were financed by the scientific foundation, and scientific supervisors supported the young developers. And imagine that they didn’t go there to study.
• But our domestic Internet giant is not lagging behind. Volozh Arkady Yurievich - co-founder and general director of the company
• Warren Buffett. The world's largest and one of the most famous investors. Buffett studied under Benjamin Graham at Columbia University, New York. According to Buffett, it was Graham who instilled in him the foundation of smart investing through fundamental analysis, and describes him as a person who helped greatest influence on his life after his father.
• Kostin Andrey Leonidovich. President and Chairman of the Board of VTB, a bank included in the TOP-3 Russian banks. At one time he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.
• Aven Petr Olegovich. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Banking Group " Alfa Bank" He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, and later defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
• Dmitry Grishin. Russian venture investor head of the board of directors of Mail.ru Group. Graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University with honors in his specialty "Computer-aided design systems."

Well, if you want to be the head of a bank, a millionaire, or create a new Google or Yandex, study. Something doesn't sound so interesting, right? Not exactly anti-propaganda. (I’ll just keep silent about doctors and scientists, they are ALL educated, and there are... thousands of them).

What are the chances that this particular student who decided not to study will achieve similar success? What are the chances that he will achieve it with education? Unknown. Yes Yes. In either case there are no guarantees. I'm not saying that education will make you successful. There are no guarantees in either case.

Education will only help those who really need it. Is higher education necessary and how to determine it? Let's talk below.

Is higher education necessary? Popular Objections

I received my diploma, but no one hires me, I have to go look for places. Higher education is to blame.

For some reason, we believe that once we receive our qualifications, we will get a job right away, and joyful employers will tear us away right away. But is there any guarantee of this? No, we have not been living in the Soviet Union for a long time. There is no guarantee that you will be received with pleasure. What are the chances of getting a job somewhere without education? Even less.

I want to say that education and getting a job are two different processes. Yes, one partly depends on the other, but it is important to understand that getting an education does not mean getting a job. Both in the case of education and without it, in order to find a good place, you need to work hard, make an effort.

Does this bother you? Get rid of the myth in your heads that a diploma equals a prosperous place. With the collapse of the USSR this ceased to be so. You can feel about it however you like. This is a fact and it needs to be understood. Throw out this myth about getting a job.

With or without a diploma, you need to make an effort. Cutlets separately, flies separately. Getting a job is a separate project. Your personal. Education will only give you the right to hope for some positions and a knowledge base for a number of specialties. That's all.

Now think about it, is higher education itself to blame for the fact that this Soviet myth is sitting in your head? The question is rhetorical.

I received my diploma, I’m looking for a job, but I can’t get a job. There is no work. My industry is overcrowded. Nobody hires by specialty. Higher education is to blame.

Just a question: when you entered, did you study the market? Have you analyzed where you can work and how much demand the profession has? No? Why?

Why, before submitting your documents, did you not ask what are the chances of getting a job in this specialty, what is the turnover in the profession, what are the chances of development? Weren't you interested? Why?

I can say that at the age of 16, when I was preparing to enter the Faculty of Chemical Technology, I learned everything that was available about the specialty I was interested in. Where can you work, what are the chances, are there any vacancies. I was pleased that there was a specialist in the desired specialty. recruitment from employers who are willing to pay special fees. scholarship and wait for graduates. Great, really. I was preparing and dreaming of working in a large, cool, prosperous company.

But I never got there. No, the exams would have been fine; I deliberately did not submit documents there. There I could have problems with the device, since these types of enterprises are wary of hiring women due to health risks. I decided that this option was not suitable for me. I realized in advance that difficulties might await me later, and my health is dear to me.

I was preparing for one, and entered another, the Faculty of Chemistry. Where there was wide potential to work in safe food, cosmetics and environmental fields. I was already thinking about this when I was 16 years old. And you?

When we want to open a business (for a good reason), we carefully analyze the niche, demand, and identify the needs of potential buyers. After all, without doing this, you can go down the drain. When we meet people, we consciously or not evaluate them to what extent they good man what are his values? We don’t really want to communicate with alcoholics, parasites, whiners, beggars, we distance ourselves and don’t let such people into our lives.

Why do we thoughtlessly receive an education that no one needs and still hope that we, as highly qualified specialists, will be torn away with our hands? Go study to become teachers, doctors - there is a huge demand there. Do not want? Do you want to become a lawyer? Is there freebies and money? So don’t be surprised that there are plenty of lawyers and the chances of finding a job are minimal.

Now think about it: is higher education itself to blame for the fact that you did not think about work in advance? Another rhetorical question.

I know people with education, they are kind of stupid and stupid. Education spoils them

In fact, no matter what external cultural influence there is, a person becomes smart, erudite, and literate. Yes, the environment can make its own adjustments, a young man can fall into bad company. But those who want to develop, develop. And those who only like to drink beer and play with tanks will not become great scientists and inventors, no matter what elite university they study at.

Any person can launch himself, or he can constantly develop and improve personal qualities. Only this is the work of the person himself, someone else should not and cannot do it for him. Do you still think that these should be university teachers?

While I was studying, I realized that I wanted to do something else. I opened my own business, took up design/decided to study psychology/carve furniture/travel, etc. Higher education is to blame for preventing me from doing what I love.

There is one amazing, beautiful principle in coaching: “every person does The best choice V this moment" Then, at 16-17-18 years old, you simply could not know that in 2-3 years you would be fixing bikes and this would be a real pleasure for you, it would become a matter of life.

Then you did not have the experience, the knowledge that you have now. Then you made this choice because you didn't know what you might like in the future. Then you have just begun to understand what you want in life. The tower was a viable option at that time. You didn’t hang around the courtyards drinking beer with “friends”, but began to learn at least something, perhaps found real friends among your classmates, met your future wife/husband, and participated in student events.

Many of us have a myth in our heads that once we have chosen a profession, we will remain in it forever. Friends, this is a MYTH, MYTH, MYTH. You can (and should) change your type of activity. There is nothing terrible if, a year or two or three after admission, you realized that this is not your thing, if you found a job that you like better. So this is wonderful!

Some of my classmates/classmates finished their education and realized that this specialty was not for them. Even during their basic studies, some entered the second higher education, others completed retraining courses. We learned, got settled and are happy in our new field. This is good, and this is their life path.

Is it education’s fault that you yourself didn’t know what you wanted when you were 16-17-18 years old? Yes, this rhetorical question again!

Or maybe you did it because your parents insisted, for company with a friend, because it was fashionable? And then you say that education is useless. So very carefully, don’t take it as impudence, I want to ask if it’s not your fault that you chose education, succumbing to external influence?

So is it education’s fault that you didn’t act according to at will? (What kind of these rhetorical questions, tired of it already!)

Analyze whether you need higher education

So, if you have a negative attitude towards education, answer the questions:

• Is the specialty you entered desirable, is it your favorite thing? Was it like that at the time of admission?
• Have you analyzed the possibilities of getting a job in advance? Have you looked at the demand for specialists in this specialty?
• Have you made efforts to find a job? How well did you look for a place?
• Do you really enjoy doing what you learned?

If you answered YES to all the questions, if you did everything that depends on you, and at the same time you think that higher education is not necessary, then I am very interested in your position, I will be happy to discuss this topic with you in the comments.

It is most sad to see that the blame for universities is mainly those who went to study there not of their own free will, did nothing to learn about future work, made no attempt to use his knowledge. And then they blame education for their failures. Agree, this is the position of a child, a teenager, but not an adult.

The myths have been dealt with. Now my opinion is whether it is necessary, this is education.

I believe that education is necessary. BUT. Not everyone.

Who does NOT need higher education? Those who do what they love and at the same time do NOT need a diploma for your business. Some make crafts, some write fairy tales, some repair bikes, some sell their crafts, some raise children, some build a business. Why do you need education in something that is not yours? No reason. You personally don’t need it and that’s all. Just like you don’t need a sheepskin coat and felt boots if you live in the tropics and your temperature is 30 degrees all year round. The sheepskin coat and felt boots themselves are a good thing, but you personally don’t need them.

If your favorite activity requires a diploma (for example, if you are a doctor and you really like it), then yes, education is needed. Necessarily.

We so often blame everyone and everything (education, government, president, country, parents, society) for our failures. We often think about such a pretentious word as “responsibility” when it comes to others. But, alas, we so rarely remember this responsibility when we're talking about about your own education. After all, we ourselves went for this education, so why blame someone or something for the failure of this attempt?

It is we who make the choice whether to submit to external pressure or go our own way. It is we who change, grow up, and gain experience. We almost always have a real choice, and we absolutely always have a choice of our reaction. This is called proactivity, if you've read S. Covey or Viktor Frankl.

Who else doesn't need education? For those who have chosen a profession in a rapidly changing field. Web programming, most specialties in marketing and web professions (targetologists, advertisers, SEO and SMM specialists), businesses of all levels. In these areas, things change faster than curricula are modified. Yes, the education system with its standards is less flexible. By definition, in its essence, it cannot keep up with these super-high-speed areas.

And if you asked the above questions about the future device, you will immediately understand that education in such specialties will soon become obsolete. I encourage you to always think ahead, that's the main thing.

Education as a resource

I think you understand that education itself is neutral here. The system has its gaps, holes, and there are positive sides. As an everywhere. This is exactly the same external resource as everything else. We can use it or not. We can choose it, that is, education, change it, not finish it or finish it, use it or not use it.

Education is a resource. Like time, money, materials for construction, houses, cars, the ability to drive this car, skill, computer and smartphone, bank loans. There are frankly terrible resources, rotten and dilapidated. There are wonderful ones. We choose for ourselves which resources to use and which not. You don’t take out loans from every second bank simply because:

• I liked the ad
• parents insisted
• credit is fashionable
• for company with a friend
• Well, everyone has loans and it’s the same with me...

and then you sit and cry because you are deeply in debt and blame the banks for issuing such and such loans. So it is with education. If you consider it as a resource, choose it according to your needs, look for a good university with the right program, examples of successful graduates, reviews (and don’t go to places where they teach you poorly and not what you need), then education will become one of the most successful investments in your future.

I’m finishing this long story, otherwise I’m afraid I’m already tired of it.

conclusions

Let's sum it up to collect my thoughts. A few key takeaways:

1. Higher education is neither evil nor good. This is a resource that needs to be used wisely.
2. There are people who do not need education to live. And then you don’t need to receive it.
3. There are people who need education. Welcome to the walls of the university.
4. And most importantly: you need to learn what you love, what you like, what makes your eyes sparkle. This applies not only to higher education, but to any education.

What do you think about this?

The high level of development of science and technology, increased volumes of information do not allow to an ordinary person, not a genius, become a highly qualified specialist in several fields of knowledge. For most people, it becomes possible to obtain only the amount of knowledge that is necessary to study a particular subject, a particular profession. Those. The vast majority of certified specialists have only one, but this is quite enough for them to realize self-realization in life.

Only having the knowledge that can be obtained at a university can you say that you know the theory of your professional activity to be considered a highly qualified specialist. Only specialized knowledge in the subject that has become your profession makes you a highly qualified professional, or scientist.

Higher education gives a person not only the necessary amount of special knowledge in a particular science, technology, literature, art, but also other, no less important skills. While studying at a university, you gain additional knowledge in related fields, which today no truly literate and educated person can do without. At universities, students of all specialties study culture, fundamentals of law, foreign affairs and economics.

But, most importantly, during training, a person gains skills to work in the information field. At the university, he learns to work with literature, organize a search for sources of knowledge necessary for work, process them, analyze and draw conclusions from what he has learned. Modern computer technologies and the capabilities of the Internet have only expanded the space of knowledge that is available to university students and graduates.

We can say that higher education is a different qualitative level of information perception that distinguishes a university graduate from a university graduate. This is a step from which a thinking person can continue his further education in the chosen professional field and related areas of knowledge that will be useful to him for further growth and self-improvement.

Higher education is not uncommon today; almost every student, after completing 11th grade, goes to study at a higher educational institution. Some people do this consciously, wanting to get a certain profession, while others go to university without thinking about how necessary and important it is for them.

New knowledge

Work in specialty

Prestige

Is education necessary today? ? Surprisingly, we hear this phrase more and more often these days. And not only because now great attention is paid to the levels and quality of education.

Modern youth are increasingly thinking about a prosperous life and a dignified old age. And even though many teenagers are not used to making conscious decisions at that age (sometimes they even make serious mistakes), sometimes they may not think about a plan “ahead,” but it is still worth doing. And why?

Why do you need higher education, and is it possible to live without it? Let's try to figure it out.

Is it possible to realize oneself in life without higher education?

The choice of each person is unique, everyone arranges their own life. Now there are rumors that you can be realized in this life without higher education. What are those rumors? It is enough to enter the importance of higher education into the search engine, and we will see that now it is still possible to work without it. But is it? Actually, not really. This rumor appeared a long time ago; you should not blindly believe that without a higher education you will be able to get a decent and well-paid job. Of course there are exceptions. Even without counting those people who got a job thanks to influential or wealthy relatives, there are people with talent and skills at the highest level. But where is the confirmation of this? Nowadays, employers give preference to people who have a higher education diploma.

“If you don’t have a brain, even 5 higher educations won’t help you”

Quite a strange joke, but there is truth in it. Why give up higher education if you have a thirst for knowledge, a desire to find a good job and natural talent? A diploma of higher education will confirm your knowledge and skills in this specialty. Judge for yourself: you need to entrust important work one of two workers: one of them knows his job, and the second person is a mystery, it is unknown what he is capable of. Any boss, of course, will choose a more qualified employee, because why should he take risks? The bottom line is that higher education is not necessary, but getting a prestigious job with help is much easier.

Career

It is also important to highlight that at present education is just a formality. You often find people with higher education working for pennies, or vice versa. But an important advantage here is your skill and understanding of your specialty. Do you have these qualities? Then completing college and obtaining a higher education will help you in your career growth! Entrepreneurs always take care of “valuable” workers. It is enough to prove yourself, you will become in demand as a representative of your specialty, and thereby ensure your career growth. The fact is that your boss will help you if he does not want to lose a highly qualified worker with a higher education. But don’t forget about diligence: without it nothing will come of it.

Own business

Many students also dream of their own personal business. This is also an option for making good money the right conditions and on its own “soil”. But few people realize that most entrepreneurs with their own businesses have higher education. And it is very important here! Building a strong business that will not bankrupt you and will begin to make a profit even in the first couple of years will be difficult for a person who has not graduated from college . IMPORTANT:Here we are talking specifically about a diploma of higher education! If a person does not have talent or desire, then nothing will help him. Higher education here will only simplify the process of starting a business and its development.

Education

Here we will talk about the difference in education, and specifically about higher and secondary – vocational. It is enough to understand that since 2004, the average - professional education"diluted" with school curriculum. In this case, we are being prepared to pass exams, not to receive future profession and skills in the area of ​​interest to us. In all kinds of institutes, according to the decree of the Ministry of Education, everything more attention the opportunity for future employees to take advantage of the acquired knowledge is given.

Advantages and disadvantages

Minuses:

• Long learning time. Indeed, for some specialties, five years of study is too much. However, you just have to come to terms with this.
• Sessions and nerves. Of course, sessions are also present during secondary education, but the requirements for higher education are more stringent, and therefore the sessions are more painful.
• Lack of skills. There is nothing to add here: a higher education diploma is of no use if a person cannot work in his profession. In this case, “With a higher education for six thousand rubles” will come out.

Pros:

• The advantage when applying for a job is more high level. It was written above that the employer will choose a person who understands his profession.
• Opportunity for rapid career growth. With the appropriate skills, you can easily become a boss yourself.
• The opportunity to easily grow your business. A business can be founded without a diploma, but again, an entrepreneur with a higher education will have an advantage.

Conclusion

Higher education will significantly spoil your nerves and will take a lot of time (depending on the qualification you choose). At times, many people will also have problems understanding their profession. However, it's worth it. A diploma of higher education will give you undoubted advantages in the future, will provide you with a rise in career ladder. In addition, now is the time: without a higher education, it will be difficult to get even the simplest job, not to mention the legal fields. It turns out that the importance of higher education in the modern world is quite difficult to overestimate.

In general, it depends on how you want to live in the future and how important the opinions of others are to you.

• There are specialties in which you will definitely not be able to achieve success without a specialized higher education (medicine, law, engineering, etc.). So if you think one of these majors is your calling, it seems clear that this is the education you need.
• If you don’t know 1000% exactly what you want to do in the future, it’s better to get some kind of higher education (in this case, I advise you to choose a faculty based on your interests, and not on high pay, because if you are very bored, there is a high probability that you will not complete your studies before receiving your diploma, but you will still most likely be working outside your profession), and here’s why:
• With a higher education diploma it is much easier to find a higher paying job than without it. Here's the question: do you need such a highly paid job? It's deeper than it seems. Yes, perhaps it won’t be difficult for you alone to live in a rented room with three other people, eat buckwheat and buy clothes once every five years. What if you want to start a family? You would probably like to raise your children in more favorable conditions (and in principle, quite a lot of money is spent on children). The phrase “money can’t buy happiness” is about how being super rich won’t necessarily make you happy, not about how being poor won’t make it hard.
• In principle, prejudices in society are such that people with higher education, who have gone through the realities of studying at a university, are somehow better, smarter, more intelligent than people without it.
• While studying at university you can make many new connections, both business and personal, where you are more likely to such you won't get the opportunity.
• Even if now it seems to you that you can do without the “goodies” of higher education, there is a high probability that in 10-20 years you will regret your decision not to receive it. I personally know many such people. But the problem is that at the age when you regret it, it is much less likely that you will be able to financially endure your studies (surely, you will be able to work less if you start studying, not to mention possible costs for the training itself)

Yes, there are people who, without having a higher education, started their own business and became millionaires (or at least well-off). But it is very important to understand that such people - an exception. Where did they have so much knowledge about how to produce a product/service? how to present it in the market? how to attract clients? how to manage a company?
These people have either gone through a lot difficult path, which not everyone can do, or they are damn lucky, and such luck is also extremely rare.

There are areas in which higher education is not necessary to achieve success, and these are mainly creative or sports professions. If you see yourself in this, ask yourself two questions:

1. Are my abilities in this area sufficient to receive a stable income that meets my needs?
2. Is the risk of no longer being able to work in this field for any reason (due to injury, for example)?

If your answer to both questions is confidently positive, you can do without higher education. If you are not very sure about any of this, it is better to have a backup plan so as not to be left with nothing.

The answer to the question “Is education necessary?” depends on what meaning a person puts into this word. If we are talking about a document confirming graduation from an educational institution, then in some cases you can do without it. The diploma itself does not give anything and should not be an end in itself. But if by education we mean the acquisition and improvement of knowledge, expansion of one’s horizons and professional skills, then it is necessary for the development of a person as an individual.

General education

Education is the totality of knowledge, skills and abilities that a person acquires in different periods own life. The educational process begins in childhood and can continue throughout life. You can acquire knowledge in educational institutions with the help of teachers or engage in self-education. The right to education is enshrined in the Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and other legal acts.

General education programs include:

1. Preschool education programs. small children, if it is not mandatory? Preschool education lays the foundation for intellectual and physical development child. If parents for some reason cannot or do not want to take their child to the nursery preschool, they must engage in its education on their own.
2. General education programs. General education also called school or secondary education. Without a certificate of secondary education, it is impossible to continue studying in technical or higher education. educational institution, therefore, get a specialty. besides receiving the document? School not only provides basic knowledge in various subjects, but teaches discipline, adaptation in society, and develops character.
3. Higher education programs. everyone? Of course not, since not every person aspires to become a civil servant, office worker or manager. Many build their lives differently, and for this they only need the knowledge gained at school, or after completing specialized courses, in the process of self-education. Although for a person with a higher education diploma, more prospects and opportunities open up.

Self-education

Self-education is a kind of superstructure over the foundation of basic knowledge acquired at school or institute. The self-study program consists only of required material in accordance with the interests and needs of a particular person.

Independent acquisition of additional knowledge, mastery of skills and abilities provides complete freedom to choose sources of information, as well as the amount of time spent. This is the beauty of this type of education.

Functions of education and its value for society

Education as a part of social culture performs several interrelated functions:

1. Reproduction function. It consists of the reproduction of culture in new generations on the basis of professional experience, achievements of science and art, spiritual and cultural values. Education creates a sense of responsibility to future generations for the preservation and enrichment of cultural heritage.
2. Development function. Implies the development of individual human personalities and society as a whole. Education helps young people to join the life of society and integrate into social system, become a full-fledged citizen of the country, achieve success in society. Education influences a person’s social status, ensures mobility, and promotes self-affirmation.

The potential of any state and its prospects further development directly depend on the level of moral, economic and cultural spheres. Education is a fundamental factor in interaction between members of society and the attractiveness of the country as a whole.

The importance of education for a person

Speaking about the benefits of education for society, it is impossible to underestimate its importance directly for each individual. In the modern world, education is one of the main value orientations in society. Education does not only mean obtaining professional knowledge and skills, but also personal development. Educated person has a number of advantages:

• freedom and independence;
• stability of existence;
• universalism (the need for harmony, justice, tolerance);
• success in society, social approval;
• power, respectful attitude of others.

Currently, education is not a priority for a select few, but is available to everyone. Therefore, each of us is the arbiter of our own destiny.