Skill is good and educational certificate is also good. Having any of them can actually put food on your table, but the question is which of them will you let go for the other. I mean education can get you a white collar job the same way a skill can too. For me i will let go of the skill because skill without basic education is not good at all. Because I have seen a situation whereby a guy with good skill who got a job was unable to give quotation and he lost the job .Formal education is good for everyone.
When you talk about this, you can have skills that are still useful even if you don't have a formal education, as long as you use them correctly. However, I'm not saying that education
is no longer important. Of course, education is still valuable. If we can, we should really study so that we can combine the skills we discover within ourselves with what we learn when we graduate.
Ultimately, the bottom line of education is that we will eventually look for a job to make use of what we've studied. In short, we'll still be looking for an employer.
The same goes for skills—we'll also be looking for employers who will hire us.