The important thing with any education on software is learning how to learn software. As I've been told by many, it doesn't really matter which software you learn, it'll be useless in a year or two and everyone will have moved on to the next great thing.
It is good to experiment with newer programming languages, but over the years some of the languages or programs I have used are Excel with VBA, Fortran, C++, Python, and R, and none of them have become obsolete. (Not even Fortran if one considers modern versions of the language.)
