Do people with more formal education are better leaders?

Do people with more formal education are better leaders ? The idea has deep roots in both classical and contemporary political thought. Teachers who earn master’s degrees do not appear to produce better students. Chief executive officers (CEOs) with more schooling do not seem to produce higher profits. Perhaps politicians with more formal education do not produce better government

Why would we expect politicians who have more formal education to be better leaders?  Many social scientists have recently started to agree on it .The most common answer in the scholarly literature is that people with more schooling have more human capital and tend to be more engaged in civic life. People with more education tend to have more conceptual and analytical skills that make employees valuable and that make it easy for citizens to engage in politics. Those skills are also helpful while running a campaign or holding a political office.

While some scholars argue that, people with more education will tend to be better leaders. But are they? The empirical evidence show the link between human capital and leader quality is also less certain. Education can impart many skills that may be useful in politics. But most formal education does not directly focus on how to run for or hold political office. Campaigning and governing are highly specialized tasks, and the human capital people acquire from formal education may not give them big advantages when they decide to seek public office.

In the end I can say that, True leaders are born not made. A born leader is possessed with originality of thought. Thoughts that create more benefits to society. Thoughts that inspire and teach others to do the same. Thoughts that jolt others to rethink the usefulness of their present worth. Most of all, a born leader is imbued with unbounded courage to stick to his views and actions decisively. Formal education can teach various leadership traits, but how to use that traits is the art of that person like Teachers who earn master’s degrees do not appear to produce better students. Chief executive officers (CEOs) with more schooling do not seem to produce higher profits.

The author of this article is Assistant Professor, Pioneer Institute of Professional Studies, Indore