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.
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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 are doctors, engineers and computer professionals then you could notice that many of them would dream to be employed by success icons like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckenberg, who have had great success in the corperate world. Bill Gates has not stepped a foot in higher education however he is a successful entrepreneur.
Successful entrepreneurs even benefit from not having academic qualification as going to college forces people to learn and think alike. This environment makes it more difficult for people to develop their insights and creativity. Adding to these people with gifts in the arts or in sports are sometimes not able to explore their qualities fully through academics.
In conclusion, I am not in the belief that academic qualifications ensures success in life because nothing is guaranteed, family and friends are more important then money and success never depends on grades. You could have a degree but there will always be someone with something better and you will be in a competition with them. Do you think academic performance is the best indicator of success in life?