Bachelor's Degree

Thanks for your opinions, that was great to make me think about! First of all, I just join this web so I don't know that I should argue with someone, I thought it would be like 'createdebate.com"! So I will give my views now! 1. My opponent deduced that my "contention is that work experience isn't as important as being educated". I am sorry that I did not make it clear in my first argument but I did not mean this! I am working on game design which a bachelor may not necessarily required rather than skills and experiences! What I disagree in my first argument is that my classmates said work experiences are far more important than education! If they treat them equally important, that's great! However, what they see is work experiences are more important than education! And that's why I disagree! - My country is a small Asian country where science and technology have not been developed yet! What we do is to buy technology from Japan and US! So let's say if IT people such as my classmates think that work experiences are far more important and with your argument, "being financially stable". And they just go out to work within purchasing higher academic knowledge, how long can we people catch up with other countries? I will give you an example, when I go to Singapore to study, you all know Singapore has high ranked education system! What make me surprise is that my high school classmates and Singaporean students can come up with many ideas about something like Quantum Computer and many other things which requires higher levels of knowledge! What I am trying to say is that, with higher knowledge with work experiences, people can come up with many innovations! Work experiences alone may not help! 2. Let me define education by Wiki, Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. And I really surprise that who said my contention about Bill Gate, I did mean this at all. What I am trying to say is that, Bill Gate and Steve Jobs dropped out from college, although they do not attend formal education, by they educated themselves and they treat formal education important, just they cannot find out that they fit that systems! Bill Gate is very strict about his daughter's education, for example! Bill Gate in certain video or in some of his speech, he never tell people should drop out and work as my TEACHERS in my UNIVERSITY and my classmates told me! 3. Why I don't think go to work early is a good way in my content, I mean finish a degree soon our just drop out to work! First of all, if you are good and graduate soon, congrats! But if you learn in some ways without sufficient knowledge to get a degree and go to work, it is not courage! I encourage people to work and earn some money, even that is part time jobs! But in this content, some of my classmates just want to drop out and go to work! Well, surely I disagree with this! Maybe their life can be flourished as some dropped out people like Bill Gate! But without sufficient knowledge, how can they suppose to do? 4. If my teacher courage students to "work early", they can make excuses! My uni divide degree into 8 certificates! The 8th certification with projects is to gain bachelor's degree! With each certification, people can find jobs without bachelor! But not a high-paying job! Let take this as example, if they go out and work, earn some money and in short term, they drop out and keep working! Maybe they are at certification 6th or 7th! What I am trying to say is that, if we tell students that work experience is better and encourage them to work early! They may lose focus on their studies ! And the result may provoke some social issue! 5. For any form of education, it is still important to gain more knowledge! Knowledge is the basis of anything! Some knowledge can help people to create new things and come up with many new ideas! I will give you an example of the country where I finished my A levels! Singapore! This country used to be poor and lack of resources and especially water! However, with education, they are now a famous and developed country with wealth and good services! A levels in Singapore is harder and more pressure than in England or Malaysia! If my country pursue students to work rather than possess higher education like Bachelor's Degree, Master or PhD., How can they progress? 6. College in my country is not expensive as in your country, and education is not so good also! So if they stop at Associated degree, not only hard to get a jobs but also create more social issue! I agree with your argument about graduating early can be good! but sorry, in my country is 4 years and no special case! With all above, I against encouraging to work early and treat work experiences as more important than education! And I don't know how can you come up with contentions that I even did not think about!