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.
I think the comparison of education and skills are not possible because they both have no equillence. Learning skills is good in fact this is the thing by using you can't face poverty or any hurdles. But being educated and then learning skills is something else. If you have education then there is multiple choices with which skill you want to go work but without education there are skills but in a limited number. If you are not educated then the skills that remains are bot as good as an educated person can learm for himself his family and a safe future. i think learning skills either education is more important so before motivate people towards skills motivate them to have education because education also teach you how you get benefits from being skilled specifically.