requirement to take action.\" I have a background in the fire service and there
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requirement to take action." I have a background in the fire service and there is a constant debate as to which is more important, education/training or experience. Would you rather have an educated worker or an experienced one? We spoke last week about the value of failure.. Do you think it is necessary to fail in order to succeed? Can education and training help prevent personal failures by essentially helping a worker learn from the mistakes of others? Is it possible for someone to have a lot of experience and still do something wrong? How do you even quantify experience? Do you think time in a position necessarily correlates into experience? Please share your thoughts on this topic Rubrics Discussion Threads Start a New Thread Sort by; ilter by: status Drats v cio Author First NExplanation / Answer
In my view, both education and experience have their roles in making a fire service worker more reliable and robust against accident. One can never conculde that either of the education or experience, exclusively wins over the other when it comes to developing safe and reliable fire service workers.
There has to be an optimal balance between education/training and experience through actually working hands on for the fire service workers.
I dont completely agree with the statement-" It is necessary to fail in order to succeed." because there have been instances when an inexperienced fire service worker performs much better in a completely new adverse situation which none of the experience fire service workers have come across with.
Education and training indeed does help in preventing personal failures by learning from others' mistake, but only upto certain extent. Because the probability of facing a totally new situation first time is always nonzero there is a chance that even the most experienced personals come across a totally unseen situation. In such cases, a fresh personnel will be more flexible and open to adapt to unseen situation due to the training he has acquired, compared to an experienced person.
Yes, indeed it is possible for someone with lot of experience and yet do something wrong precisely due to the reaso i mentioned in previous paragraph.
To quantify the experience, I think we can use following definition - " The experience of a person in fire service work is the time duration for which the person has demonstrated the ability to extend his already learnt skills into an unseen situation."
I think that time in a position only partially correlates with the experience gained by the person because I use my definition of experience as described above.
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