Sridevi wrote:
[quote]Right ..., But, it also depends on how you define education.
Education is anyting which imparts knowledge,skills and helps us to differentiate good from bad. It is not just academic education.

So, taken thus, it can be said to be the (only)key factor to success.[/quote]

Education gives us knowledge..agreed..
If an athlete sits and educate himself, studying books, attending lectures, making assignments, taking degrees... and donot practice to run on the court, donot maintain his timings to run...can he then succeed in race?? can he get award??
If Artist would study, study and study and never practice for his paintings or art..can he be successful in his work..

The bottom line is: Education can help you breaking many walls, makes you better citizen, but alone it is not the key to success..

I agree with Aastha,

Even fields like medicine or engineering where education is required a lot but at the same time lot of practice and practical knowledge is required. So, Education alone can't be the key to success and if you see the other way education is not the key to success.

@aastha&karthik..

Agreed, But, what is practice? It is putting education to use. You will practise only what you have learnt through education.

Without education, there is no practice. Only in very few cases,like chemical experiments, you will learn only by practice.(In that case also, you are getting yourself educated via practice).

I agree with Sridevi. Theory and practice are both inseparable components of education. There are certain fields like cricket, acting that involve more practice and less theory whereas profession like accountancy and law need more theory and less practice. This is only comparative. Ultimately, practice makes one perfect. One practises what he has learnt. Theory and practice are just two wheels of the same two wheeler.

Sridevi wrote:
[quote]@aastha&karthik..

Agreed, But, what is practice? It is putting education to use. You will practise only what you have learnt through education.

Without education, there is no practice. Only in very few cases,like chemical experiments, you will learn only by practice.(In that case also, you are getting yourself educated via practice).[/quote]

There is no such relation, just take an example when a net gets disconnected in your house due to some LAN or modem problem an ordinary person who might have just passed intermediate or a SSC student comes to your house to repair your modem. But frankly speaking about the coding of wires in which order they need to be placed or assigning of IP address or checking the status of pinging are done by him, but his just a SSC or a intermediate qualified student. Does SSC or intermediate education teach these things? it is just because he moves across various houses and learns how things works and I can assure these workers are more skilled than a person who has 70% aggregate in B.Tech with CSE or IT as their background. Can anyone contradict this statement?

@Sridevi..

You told that practice comes through education..
When an athlete has to practice to run in court, does he need education to run..?? He need to practice and practice is to run and not to open books and study..how to run..??

If you say teaching him how to run is education and is going to help him..
Just consider two athletes, one is taking lessons on how to run and other is practicing it, continously running and making his pace best while the former is just sitting and taking lessons on how to run...Who will be the winner then...???

Sridevi, there are certain fields where education is less required to get successful while there are some fields which require highly qualified education to get success.
All depends upon what field you want to relate yourself..

@karthik
[quote]

There is no such relation, just take an example when a net gets disconnected in your house due to some LAN or modem problem an ordinary person who might have just passed intermediate or a SSC student comes to your house to repair your modem. But frankly speaking about the coding of wires in which order they need to be placed or assigning of IP address or checking the status of pinging are done by him, but his just a SSC or a intermediate qualified student. Does SSC or intermediate education teach these things? it is just because he moves across various houses and learns how things works and I can assure these workers are more skilled than a person who has 70% aggregate in B.Tech with CSE or IT as their background. Can anyone contradict this statement?[/quote]

He surely must have been trained to some extent by the seniors or he must have done some sort of ITI diploma course in hardware tecnology.. to understand the technology involved.

Running is comparitively an easy sport.. In this also, doing warm exercises are required and training + practising, need to go side by side.

@ Sridevi,

Thats what I mean his just given a training by his co members and could succeed in life even without proper education. So education is not the key to success for such fields.

Education is key for success for educational person not for all type of person. In India lot of people getting success from different field but if person related to educational background then education is must to get success.

Understanding and the training given by co-members and grasping the procedure quickly depends on how educated you are. For instance, you first need to understand how LAN works to take up tasks independantly.. as Nobody will explain you from the start.

Proper or improper, education is education and holds the key to a bright future.