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Do you think talent is more important than education?

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Question added by mohammed jaffer khan , Service Advisor / Floor Supervisor , Al Mazroui & Clevy Automobiles
Date Posted: 2017/01/12
Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

That's comparing apples and oranges.

The only thing that truly matters is luck.  It's luck that you weren't struck by a meteorite five minutes ago.  It's luck that gives you talent, and the ability to be educated and the chance to be educated and the willingness to be educated.

What talent, education, training, effort, good manners, practice, thoughtfulness, etc do is tilt the luck a little bit more in your favour.   None are intrinsically more or less important than the rest - they are all important - but in any given circumstance some will have more significance than others.

Shoeb Shaikh
by Shoeb Shaikh , Associate architect , Studio architectonic

I follow the principle of "Learning by Doing". I have balanced my career between professional practice and Education, so I feel the best you can see in a person is the right mix of both.

One has to get the right education to achieve the skills and talent to Use it.

Hari Divakaran
by Hari Divakaran , Manager - HR , Navigant BPM (India) Pvt. Ltd

Both Talent and Education are important part of a person's growth. Talent with right education would take the person to newer heights and would teach him/her the right way of doing things.

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Education is indispensable, it is right that in some professions like arts and sports, talent is the key of success, but education actually formalize that talent and gives it another dimension.

abdelhaye igoulalene
by abdelhaye igoulalene , Management Controller , TISCOP TRADING

i think that education is more important, because even if you have a talent you may not know how to benefite from it. thus, in my point of view, education is what shows you how to use your talent 

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