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.
That way of thinking is outdated. In the past, school education was very important and prioritized because school was a way to gain knowledge from the outside world. Schools also had many books for students to learn from, which enabled people to improve themselves. However, schools in some countries are currently lagging behind in terms of progress, with education systems that lack development and standardization.
Schools or education that have unions will be useful if the school system applies skills and knowledge that are integrated into the school. After that, graduates are given a certificate as legal proof that they have attended school. However, this does not mean that people who do not attend school cannot get decent jobs. There are many jobs that prioritize skills over educational background, especially in a world that is independent and has vast openness of information.