Academic Qualifications Does Not Ensure Success in Career

Does academic qualification ensure success?

Does Academic Qualification Ensure Success? Grades,they are just another way to describe ones intellect. However,is this true? School and Education is important,it provides a foundation for everyday skills, more specific to primary education. How many people will actually learn to read, write and communicate without education? Education is the act or process of imparting and/or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning, judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life (dictionary). Academic qualifications are the degrees, diplomas, certificates, professional titles and so forth that an individual has acquired whether by full-time study, part-time study or private study, whether discussed in the home country or abroad and whether consulted by educational authorities, special examining bodies or professional bodies(OECD). The 'history of education' is about the development of systematic methods of teaching and learning. Presumably, every generation since the beginning of human existence somehow passed on its stock of values, traditions, methods and skills to the next generation. In my opinion academic qualification does not ensure success in life. Academic Qualification ensures success in life by getting a good job and getting paid well. Academic qualifications displays that a person has the basics in learning. If their basic grounding in Math, Science and Language is strong, then one can get success in life because mastering these subjects allows a person to calculate, to innovate and to communicate. These essentials for success cannot be learned without professional help like in schools and colleges. In order to prove that someone has acquired this knowledge, one is tested. If a persons learning is satisfactory, then they are given a certificate to indicate their competence as an academic qualification. These are the necessary things to get a good, very well paid job or career, but getting paid for a job that is not enjoyable does not mean that a person is happy. Unfortunately, the materialistic world has changed the concept of success. It has become a rat-race where every student chases grades and therefore the entire perception of success and prosperity has changed. Rather than studying to reach ones full potential, they do it because they think it is necessary for a successful career. So they spend ten years in school and a few more years of their precious life in college to get educated, then more time is passed in hunting for jobs. Even after that they may find themselves in the wrong profession or not being able to find a job at all, and when they find one they will be lacking job satisfaction. Eventually the recession comes along, when they are told that their wealth has been blown away by the foolishness of expensive fat-salaried CEOs. Now comes a time when people go to work with a constant fear of losing the job they do not enjoy. Is this the correct understanding of prosperity? So now the definition of success is changed. If people are able to save their jobs then they are uniformly successful?! Workers ages forty-five to fifty-four have the second lowest level of satisfaction (less than forty-five percent), according a survey conducted by The Conference Board, a market information company Indicators. (msnbc) Today, people are not happy with the jobs they chose, so they are unhappy until they day of retirement. Not being happy or satisfied can cause problems in the work field and can create a lot of stress for the workers, which can lead to suicide (helpguide). Not only is that, but people in America are also jobless. An academic education gives people a rounded experience of life, with opportunities to meet people from a wide range of backgrounds and to consider the importance of values and culture. These are necessary things required to label a person successful in all aspects of life. More broadly, widespread further education makes us a more civilized nation. It uplifts a persons morals and ethics by exposing people to the great thinkers of the past. It makes people aware of their rights and liberties, and helps entrench a liberal democracy with active citizens and a lively media. Figures show 15.6 percent of sixteen to twenty-four year-olds were 'NEETS' – not in education, employment or training – at end of last year, young people's unemployment likely to rise to 1.2million in next five years (thinktank). The number of sixteen- to twenty-four -year-olds not in education, work or training in England hit a record year-on-year high at the end of last year, official statistics show. Some 938,000 young people in this age group were "NEETS" quarterly statistics from October to December reveal. (Shepard) This shows that people are not going to college or even trying to find a job, because they are afraid of wasting their time or not just that but they might not be able to afford college in the first place. The work field is a very competitive place, even with the best scores in class ones position may be already taken in the field that they may want, so all their efforts just went down the drain and they will have to downgrade into a lower paying job for a long time being. People are not going to school or getting a job because they were not in a comfortable learning environment so they could not show the intelligence that they possess. Success is going to school and just trying your best. Whether one is proposing marriage, applying for a job or looking for a new business partner, the first thing people ask is, "what do you do?" In other words they judge people by their academic qualifications. No bio-data résumé or curriculum vitae are acceptable without the inclusion of education qualifications (idebate). Therefore, it is an unannounced rule of both the corporate world and the social world that a man's acquisition of academic qualifications is a giant leap towards opportunities in every walk of life. There may be a few people like Bill Gates and others who have made it, in spite of their drop-out background and lack of academic qualifications, but can this be generalized? Should parents tell their child to leave schooling because if Bill Gates can do it they can also do it also? A few exceptions cannot be taken as a general rule. Success is not getting a grade or a degree, if that was it, then why are not all the graduates from Harvard, Oxford or Cambridge uniformly successful? The rule of success is hard work and destiny of course. If a student of engineering gets good grades but he is not practically effective in relationship-buildings and solving crises or proper planning, even though he may be successful in getting a job but it will not lead him far. On the way he is sure to fade out. Success never depends upon grades. If success and opportunities were measured by grades then the corporate world and potential marriage partners would not ask for bio data in résumés, where other qualifications are also mentioned. Nor would they interview the prospects in order to find out what they are like as people, rather they would give a blind appointment to the people with the best paper qualifications. So qualifications alone are never enough, success depends upon physical characteristics, personality, and a willingness to work hard. Academic qualification would only serve as the toppings on our favorite pizza, but it would never taste like a pizza without the cheese. Academic qualification does not ensure success in life because success is your real and only happiness. There are not a lot of people going to school because not everyone can afford school. Even the smartest people of the world did not to graduate college or even high school, and still manage make millions of dollars still; does this mean they are failures in life? Unfortunately the materialistic world has changed the concept of success. To help the world more understand what success really is, you should just always try your hardest in whatever you do that makes you happy to follow your dreams and everyone will follow along with you.