Where you go to the school will determine your success in life... Your opinion?
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@friendship (2084)
Canada
4 responses
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
29 Aug 07
Wrong! The school has very little to do with it.
Your success in life is determined by what your parents teach you. And you have the final say when you make the choice to listen and learn... or not.
Some parents spend big money to send their children in private school. They do that because they are too lazy to spend the time educating their children. But the school is not a substitute for parents... and those children fail in private school like they would have in a public school.
The role of the school is to educate children academically only. It is not their role to bring up your children and teach them about life and moral values.
If the parents don't educate their children about life... about what is right and what is wrong... those children will not do any good at school as they will prefer to play rather than learn.
@friendship (2084)
• Canada
29 Aug 07
How about if we're talking about a higher education (i.e., a college or university level). In this case, the students are already considered as adults. Do you think someone who went to a high-ranking (prestigious) university will be considered more successful in life?
In my opinion, your success in life will be determined by yourself. It is not your parents, teachers, friends or anybody. Because when you're an adult, your parents have nothing to do with your choice unless you're a 5 years old kid. This is the same thing. You can't blame God because you did not follow His teaching. As an adult, you may already know what is right or wrong. However, your upbringing, character, and culture may also play an important role in how you think and how you value something.
Someone who is a very sensitive person, for instance, may think that it is very rude to express different opinions (He may think it is his moral values). But for another person, it is common to have a different opinion in order to achieve a mutual understanding.
@friendship (2084)
• Canada
30 Aug 07
School includes college and university. If you think school is not irrelevant with university or college, you're wrong.
According to Merriam Webster dictionary, one of School's definition is as follows:
"1 : an organization that provides instruction: as a : an institution for the teaching of children b : COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY c (1) : a group of scholars and teachers pursuing knowledge together that with similar groups constituted a medieval university (2) : one of the four faculties of a medieval university (3) : an institution for specialized higher education often associated with a university (the school of engineering) d : an establishment offering specialized instruction (a secretarial school (driving schools)"
You can take a look at http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/School
By the way, my discussion is about Your SUCCESS in LIFE. It is not related to your SUCCESS in SCHOOL. Please read my question again.
As I said previously, your upbringing can also play an important role. But there are many adults that are not following what their parents taught. If you think that your SUCCESS in LIFE will depend on your parents. It means that you are not an adult.
Both parents and teachers should WORK TOGETHER to EDUCATE kids. You may teach your kids to follow a certain moral value but peer pressures at schools may affect your kids NOT to follow it. Schools also have a responsibility to teach your kids about moral values (i.e., Ethics 101 or Religion 101).
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
30 Aug 07
Your question was about school... not university.
University is irrelevant. There are only higher university status in the sense of what course they teach.
It will be only because of what your parents taugh you and what you have learned in High School that you will be able to make it all the way to University.
By the time you make it to University... you are an adult and you are on your own. You make your own decisions. But those decisions are taken according to what your parents taught you during those first 18 years.
@friendship (2084)
• Canada
29 Aug 07
So, are you implying that people who didn't go to a good school won't be successful?
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
16 Oct 07
I tend to feel it's what you have than the school. I have a cousin that went to Havard Medical School, and though she practices now, well, she more teaches than anything at this point, she gets around a lot. My late sister got her law degree from the University of Va and her undergrad from the University of Penn, both good schools in my opinion, and she did rather well. To a degree it can be the schools, but I tend to feel it's what you have. Down here in Alabama, if you went to either Alabama or Auburn, folks tend to favor you with a job here so I hear tell. But I have seen folks graduate from Ole Miss and other places and do rather well here.
@moondan (712)
• China
18 Oct 07
It is hard to say.Mostly it depends on somepeople themselves.But i think if you go to a good school,it obivious that you can success easily than the people in poor school.Good school can give you good education and there have more famous teachers,professors.It has better equipment and so on.You can study in a convinent entironment.And for people who is young,circumstance around him is important,he/she can easily influenced by other person,so friend is important.Good school maybe better.But determine your succeess in your life is yourself not otherthing as school,education,friends,family ....Trust yourself,you will be successful.
