Is academic performance the best indicator of sucess in life?
Is academic performance the best indicator of success in life? No
The definition of success differs from person to person and field to field. One could take economics success as the ingredients to label a person successful in life. Others may look at it as a capacity to overcome challenges, irrespective of what someone ears and the nature of their private life. So who is a successful person and who is a failure? Do school choices and school grades provide way of predicting or ensure future success? If this is true should there be more emphasis on students to work hard and gain formal qualifications. But is this true? Aren’t some college drop-outs like Bill Gates and Richard Branson successful icons of success? And should we automatically consider the millions of young people who have not had the opportunity to gain academic certificates to be failures in life?
First, success never depends on grades. If success was solely based on grades than employers and potential social partners would not ask for biodata and resumes. Why would employers bother interviewing prospects in order to find out what they are like as people? They would just hire based on the best paper qualifications. Certain people do very well in school however they spend their lives in a prison facility. So qualifications alone are never enough to determine a guaranteed success. Success also depends on physical characteristics, personality and motivations.
Secondly, success is not a grade or a degree, if that was the case then why aren’t all graduates from Mc Gill, Ottawa U and University of Toronto not all successful? The rule of success is hard work and destiny. If a student gets good grades but is not effective in relationship building, solving crisis, and proper planning even though he might be successful at acquiring a job his life could lack the basics like love, family, stability and healthy relationships?
Thirdly, if you look at the directory of successful people who
The definition of success differs from person to person and field to field. One could take economics success as the ingredients to label a person successful in life. Others may look at it as a capacity to overcome challenges, irrespective of what someone ears and the nature of their private life. So who is a successful person and who is a failure? Do school choices and school grades provide way of predicting or ensure future success? If this is true should there be more emphasis on students to work hard and gain formal qualifications. But is this true? Aren’t some college drop-outs like Bill Gates and Richard Branson successful icons of success? And should we automatically consider the millions of young people who have not had the opportunity to gain academic certificates to be failures in life?
First, success never depends on grades. If success was solely based on grades than employers and potential social partners would not ask for biodata and resumes. Why would employers bother interviewing prospects in order to find out what they are like as people? They would just hire based on the best paper qualifications. Certain people do very well in school however they spend their lives in a prison facility. So qualifications alone are never enough to determine a guaranteed success. Success also depends on physical characteristics, personality and motivations.
Secondly, success is not a grade or a degree, if that was the case then why aren’t all graduates from Mc Gill, Ottawa U and University of Toronto not all successful? The rule of success is hard work and destiny. If a student gets good grades but is not effective in relationship building, solving crisis, and proper planning even though he might be successful at acquiring a job his life could lack the basics like love, family, stability and healthy relationships?
Thirdly, if you look at the directory of successful people who