Individual,

Do you even know what "ethos" means?

Do you even know what "ethos" means?
Foxy,
You looked that pretty quick !

Individual,

Do try to be coherent.

Now I see where Indy is coming from, he got knocked back for a job, and has been dirty ever since.

//I, along with three others applied for a position for which we had more than ample experience but it was given to a very young person with experience at all in the work force because he was deemed "more qualified" due to Uni attendance.//

Indy, they were probably looking for a trainee sanitary engineer, and you were too experienced, even if you did come with your own mop and bucket.

Isn't it just 100% proof that those with no argument always resort to ridicule. The undeniable fact is that Theory is given a higher priority than actual experience. As all decision makers in Authority nowadays are of academic education background all failures are due to academic background mentality. And, it is that realisation that the pseudo-intellectual (minimum academic achievement) crowd are desperately trying to conceal by bombarding society with jargon.
The real achievers are doing meaningful work.

Is education over-rated in today's society ? It depends whether the author meant

(a) that the education students are currently getting, in their visual arts and communication studies courses, is often little more than puffery and blather, teaching self-importance and entitlement more than knowledge and skills;

or

(b) that education is more vital than ever before in a rapidly-changing society, in order to keep up with the more advanced technologies etc. across the world.

I suspect that both are correct.

Joe