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 rsum 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 rsums, 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