Education should be relevant and make a difference in your life. Discovering ways that your experience fits into the discussion makes the topic significant and applicable to your job or future education. Some courses naturally build on experience, such as business, sociology, or psychology.
It’s another way to make the material more relatable, and a good way to get to know your classmates. Sometimes it’s easier to apply information to your working knowledge of a certain situation or set of laws that govern that practice in your field of study. Bringing your career and street smarts to class can have great benefits.