avishai. Given the choice and based on my own experience, I would always prefer to work with, and for, people with practical experience rather than those with a "higher level of education".

If you give a real life problem to a person with a "higher level of education" who is lacking in practical experience and ask them to find a solution to it, the chances are that they will not be capable of doing it.

Give the same problem to a person with practical experience and they will find at least one solution to the problem very quickly.

Such is life...