Taking Time to be a Student, in School, and on the Job

Charles Ellis talks about the value of both education and experience.

Be realistic, I think that everybody that is my age believes that time and practice and experience really help. So I think some tolerance for people that haven’t had time, practice and experience, but I would not be particularly flexible on those who are going to have a responsibility who haven’t studied enough to have learned in school enough to be really pretty quick to pick up on the experiences that they get to have, so maybe the right answer is, be sure you spend enough time as a student, either in school or in a company with a mentor coaching you and helping you develop your skills. I do not favor lots of learning by experience, and little learning by education before the experience, I think you really owe it to yourself and others who depend on you to immerse yourself in the education, either in a school, or in an organization and then, once you’ve got that education, take it up.