Formal Education vs. Real World Experience

Check out this article on experience vs. education: http://utahbusiness.com/issues/articles/11919/2012/01/the_college_of_hard_knocks

Personally, I don't think they are at odds. You need formal education to give you tools and you need real world experience to give you tools.

What you don't need is one or the other. That is a one winged plane.