Which is more important, education or working experience?

I'm a college student in China, and my major is in English. This term i have found a part-time job, which is to teach a 13-years-old child who has never learnt English before. At the beginning, i thought it would not influence my study, but now, I will have to spend a lot of time to prepare the class so that I don't have much time to study.

However, the job brings me responsibility and confidence. If this happens to you, what will you do?

as I believed, the education is more important than working experience, especially, before you have become a qualified teacher, you will have to bulid a solid foundation in order to teach students well. therefore, a vast of knowledge will be required not only the knowledge of English, also some other knowledge as well (the history, the economy, the science, etc), coz most of students are curious about the world and the society, they are eager to know sth about that.

more importantly
1. From the viewpoint of society, education is the only way to obtain the qualification, and more
and more employers put the qualification as priority when they employ people. If you don’t have a qualification, it is hard for people to find a job with decent salary .Therefore, if you just only have working experience, it is difficult for you to promote, especially in big cities.
This is the gap between architect and common building labor. By education, people could master systematic knowledge that they could not get from working experience.

2. From the angel of individual, education has significant meaning that plays a paramount role in
one’s life. It enables people to get high personal quality and adequate life experience, and
enlightens people.

3. If most people choose to work, it is likely to induce vast employment pressure, which results
in the waste of labor resources and inflicting burden on the society and government.

4. As a developed country, we encourage people to receive education rather than working from
an early age because we have had adequate labor resource but lacking high qualified people.

5. Education can cultivate people the ability of learning, whereas the working experience could
not give people the ability.