In college, you pay to get education. At work, you get paid to get educated. how far do you think this is true??

Normally I would spontaneously agree. But if I'm to be more rational, we must give education more credit for providing us with the knowledge basis on which applicable creativity can thrive more in our competitive and more advanced world. We should also give "work experience" a proper and subjective definition, judging it by the actual useful experience gained (not only years) and benchmarking it against other restraints to creativity like conformity and "assembly-line corporate cultures" that are built around task- specialization and not around idea's imagination.

 

When I read your wonderful question, my thoughts went automatically to that great Matt (Will) speech in the wonderful Oscar winning movie "Good Will Hunting", being a Harvard student and standing up to a wanna-sound-smart born-rich fellow student who wanted to degrade his less-gifted friend in a café, and teaching him a lesson about the truth about his high elitist education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s

 

Will: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!

 

Brilliant and disturbingly plausible! 

It is not quite as simplistic as you suggest in your question Nancy, do many people actually pay for an education these days? Do I happen to belong to a privileged society whereby the majority of educational facilities ( sorry, schools!) are provided by the state! Yes, I agree, further education (university) may require some financial outlay but those of limited means can always get assistance to cover their costs. Moving  on to the second part of your question, are we being paid to be educated? Yes, to a degree but lets be quite clear firms/companies are investing in their workforce, it is definitely not a one way street. "Whatever ye shall sow, therefore ye may reap"! Khatim of course describes it so well in his own inimitable style with his usual eclectic mix of philosophy and "showbizz" references!! Brilliant!

Knowledge is like an ocean and to get a drop out of it one neither has to pay nor get paid. One pays' for the quality of education and for the convinience of the infrastructure and surrounding environment.

While employed, one gets paid to perform the required actions, impart and share the skill sets required and to set actions by examples for others  to follow and to have returns in terms of some other measurable values such as money.

However, one needs to be greatful in both the situations for that opportunity as all do not get such opportunities to avail the benefits.

Absolutely true, we get to learn so many things while working. Specially in my case as I don't have any formal education, I have learnt all the skills that I use on my own, mostly using Google. 

College education equips a person with the basic knowledge and tools in his/her trade. The possibility of gaining practical, hand-on experince depends on the depth of study and research he/she conducted during college days and well into on-the-job trainings. While it maybe true that we pay for knowledge during college training (scholars are exempted to varying degrees) and we get paid once we get a job, a person can and will always give back to the company he/she works for. Companies do not hire people who do not deliver and in all profit based projects its the company the gets the lion's share of accrued gains - monetary and technical. Essentially, its still the talented and capable workers that pays the companies, else these firms would not at all stay afloat in the middle of fierce competition.

By simple way:- in college we get the science but in work we get practical skills   in college teachers give us efforts but in work we give the effort

No it is false. The quality of education is directly proportional to the cost. A talented poor can only join a good institute when he gets on top through the entrance exams, which is not the only way of deciding the abilities(which usually would not happen to poor students because they are not educated in good schools). People who get top tier ranks in entrance are rigorously trained under exclusive tutors n mentors. Graduate programs have enough time of 3/4 years where the brilliant n enthusiastic poor students may blossom out as a tremendous treasure. Constraints are many to poor students as they lack - 1. Financially ill 2. Supportive educated family members 3. Good mentor 4. Far from technology ( As they are opened to Internet usage ) 5. Lack of inspiration Whenever they are on the verge of achieving something all these factors play a major role.

Fully agree with Mr Irphan Ghani. Explained very nicely.