The advantage of an education is it teaches how to do something right, whereas experience might be from trial and error or involve a wrong procedure. Would you rather your surgeon study the practice of brain surgery or learn by doing? Or with your mechanic example, how many repairs are you willing to pay for until the mechanic guesses correctly? The mechanic might replace a part, but overtightened a bolt that will wear out the part sooner. Your car drives okay, but it is not fixed correctly. Another advantage of education is that it teaches new technologies, such as somebody with 30 years experience on a typewriter is not as good as somebody who learned how to use Word to go back and edit such as using Spell Check, fix clauses, remove double words (i.e. the the), capitalize, underline, and boldface.

to me a person should try get both at the same time….. while studying apply for a part time job or attachment somewhere n that way you get both!!!

or in a case where you are working for someone like fixing cars n things (for example) you have all the experience, you can always go and study to gain the education….. depends on what you chose to do

Good luck, thats a tough one to answer definitively!!!

educated = knowledge, while experienced = wisdom.