By my assumptions, there are strong indications already that we are moving past an era where employers put educational qualifications at the fore front of their requirement for employment into certain positions, some employers now hold personal qualities such as skills possessed by the individual ahead of the school they went to and the degree they graduated with. First, I would like to ask, could this be a reflection of a failing educational system? My second question is that if you happen to be the employer here, which will you consider more, school or skills?
We can not take away the place and relevance of education but however, it is necessary to acquire a skill owing to the fact that the systems has changed from where one will be dependent on just a particular skill or source of income.
Undoubtably some professions acquired from formal education can also be seen as skill but however it does not take the need to be able to multitask by putting in efforts towards other things that can be useful. In my opinion I think one can actually add a skill to formal education