The Pros And Cons Of Success

In life people want to be successful. Success can have different meanings based on a person’s personal beliefs. It is well known that education plays an important role in success. There are certain achievements in our society that equate to a successful or prosperous life. Regardless of your goals it is well known that you must dedicate yourself to get what you want and strive in what is today a competitive world. From the beginning of a child’s education they learn that working hard and receiving an education will allow them to achieve their goals. In a perfect world this is fair and makes sense. While education seems like the route to success, one should question its practices and view the negative effects. Traditional education along with

It is understandable that someone who is a minority may not have the absolute best grades compared to someone who is better off. As a result the college will consider the minority at the same level as the other applicant. This creates an equal playing field and gives minorities a chance that they deserve, a quality education. The goal of quality education is to educate students in an unbiased and equal matter in the hopes to create successful adults for the future. Admission offices also understand that college is not mandatory, so the students who apply want to learn more by their own

Achieve, an organization that helped develop the common core standards states that nearly forty percent of students were not prepared for postsecondary education (“Graduates Are Unprepared for College”). Their report includes a statement claiming that student performance is low because schools are setting the wrong expectations for their students. To a degree, this is true as secondary education has unfortunately shifted towards learning how to take and pass standardized exams rather than understanding the concepts behind the subjects they are meant to learn. Learning academic material through test-like instruction is shown to not be effective in learning the content itself (Koretz et al. 2). This means that exam results do not truly reflect on how much students are learning. Instead, they create an illusion of student knowledge. The problem lies with universities and the government both measuring students through standardized tests, and this hurts both the educator and the learner with preparing for exams. This leads to students beginning to think about problems as if they were tests and do not take a creative or practical