Why marks don’t define personality

Why marks don’t define personality

A fixation on tracking our growth & capabilities using a standardized marking system gets implanted on us at an early age. By the time we reach adulthood, many people simply accept this as the only method to gauge what we can accomplish. That’s a huge problem – because grades and intelligence are two very different things.

Grades or marks are just a number that only views your performance in a test. It only shows how much you got in that test. It doesn't show your personality. How could a grade show your personality or how could a grade judge you?

Here’s the list of people who did not even complete their formal education or scored the best, but do you know about them? Sure you do!

·         Charlie Chaplin
·         Rudyard Kipling
·         Michael Dell
·         Steve Jobs
·         George Washington
·         Bill Gates
·         Christiano Ronaldo
·         Mahendra Singh Dhoni

And the list goes on; imagine these names sticking to grades as their criteria to become famous, would they have been!

Intelligence is a broad measurement of performance that includes good grades, but they are not the only thing. Society may claim a student to be not smart is mistaken. A guided students towards passion is smarter than as a follower fulfilling just the requirements of life and society because he/she hasfound a way to excel at what he/she want, in this case it is school. It is the desire to succeed that drives the student in the direction of success in any of his/her endeavor.