Educational success determining fate

Should educational success determine your fate in life? How do students view the purpose of education? Do they see it as developing lifelong skills to prepare them for the workforce? Do they see it as a competition to get higher grades than others and this means they are better than everyone who got lower marks? Do they see it as a waste of time? I was shown the following video in one of my lectures and every single persons eyes remain glued to the screen. Every. Single. Person. It makes you think - what is the real purpose of attending school? Historically speaking, it was once seen as babysitting. But, what is it for now? When I get my marks back for assignments at university and in high school, the first thing I looked at was what mark I had received. Do grades drive my success and determination? Unfortunately, I answer that with yes. I work hard to achieve high grades, but does high grades determine my fate in life? Will my higher grades over others cause me, based on grades alone to get a teaching position over someone else who received lower grades or will other factors come into play such as interview performance? Why is so much stress put onto university ATAR scores when you can enter university later in life without the use of a score. What about the fact that not everyone performs well on exams as others. What if someone who does perform well on exams is sick or dealing with family issues performs poor. Their results will ultimately be effected. Will this influence future employment? My view is that there is too much emphasis on achieving high results in school. Shouldn't it be a process of knowing how to apply a skill rather than a exam that determines what score you get in comparison to others. How can a two hour Maths exam for example, measure your ability in Maths? Watch the following video on how one person suggests why exam results will not determine his fate.

 

I Will Not Let Exam Results Decide Our Fate

See why our whole lecture theatre was in amazement at this video? A teacher's perspective would be handy. Well, you're in luck. The link here takes you to a teacher's perspective based on the above video.

Another video by the same person is in relation to school versus education. This is below.

 Why I Hate School But Love Education