School currently focuses too exclusively on knowledge and not enough on skills. There’s a pile of evidence about the most effective “education.” Summarized, it points to relationship-rich and work-integrated learning experiences. The most important aspects include working on long-term projects that take a semester or more to complete and having a job or internship where you can apply what you are learning in the classroom. Both experiences double the odds that graduates will be engaged and successful in their work later. And graduates who had an internship during college are twice as likely to have a good job waiting for them upon graduation, too.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-desperately-need-a-merger-between-education-and-work/
