I know lots of people with little education who are very smart and there are hundreds of certificate and diploma factories in Australia receiving government funding to "educate" people who then can't get a job, or get one they aren't actually qualified to do. I assume it's the same in other countries?
I left high school at 14 and then did a year at a secretarial college and my ability to use good grammar and spelling is due to my bookish home environment, not my formal education. Even in primary school I knew better grammar than my teacher!
However, that was in the days when a secretarial qualification had reasonably high status and there were more employers around who were prepared to teach people on the job and in less than ten years I was classified as a law clerk (they call them par-legals now) in charge of a small department in a large firm. It wouldn't happen now.
a company wont hire you if your not educated?
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I know lots of people with little education who are very smart and there are hundreds of certificate and diploma factories in Australia receiving government funding to "educate" people who then can't get a job, or get one they aren't actually qualified to do. I assume it's the same in other countries?
I left high school at 14 and then did a year at a secretarial college and my ability to use good grammar and spelling is due to my bookish home environment, not my formal education. Even in primary school I knew better grammar than my teacher!
However, that was in the days when a secretarial qualification had reasonably high status and there were more employers around who were prepared to teach people on the job and in less than ten years I was classified as a law clerk (they call them par-legals now) in charge of a small department in a large firm. It wouldn't happen now.