The reasons
why first class students never become first class people in life is that we
often spend too much energy in acquiring good grades that we forget to acquire
good class personality.
After concentrating
all energy in acquiring the first class grades, we transform into a society
where first class grades don’t matter much as having a first class personality.
In school, its
easy to read,memorize and pass exams, but in real life, there is no sure book
of life to progress, no memorizing, no exams, just you and your inbuilt
capability which require no contest with anybody.
Those who
eventually become big in life are mostly people who hardly make good grades in
school.
Prof. Abletor
Sedofia from University of Ghana has this to say to us:
“Academic
excellence is overrated! Did I just say that? Oh, yes, I said it. Being top of
your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be at the top of life.
You could
graduate as the best student in Finance but it doesn’t mean you will make more
money than everybody else. The best graduating Law student does not necessarily
become the best lawyer.
The fact is
life requires more than the ability to understand a concept, memorise it and
reproduce it in an exam.
School rewards
people for their memory. Life rewards people for their imagination and
innovations. School rewards caution, life rewards daring. School hails those
who live by the rules. Life exalts those who break the rules and set new ones.
So do I mean
people shouldn’t study hard in school? Oh, no, you should. But don’t sacrifice
every other thing on the altar of First Class. Don’t limit yourself to the
classroom.
Do something
practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail. That’s a
better Entrepreneurship 101.
Join or start
an association. Contest an election and lose. It will teach something Political
Science 101 will not teach you.
Attend a
seminar. …Read books outside the scope of your course.
Go on missions
and win a soul for eternal rewards. Do something you believe in! Think less of
becoming an excellent student but think more of becoming an excellent person.
Make the world your classroom. Meet you at the top!
