Academic achievement at school or university is only true measure of a person’s intelligence. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Today when more and more and
people are investing their financial resources and efforts to accumulate higher
educational qualifications, a debate simultaneously rages across as to what can
be taken as a true parameter to gauge an individual’s capabilities. Some
definitely lean for academic feats while others feel natural instincts and
experience gained over years has more impact on a person’s intelligence.
In last century there have been
more venues established to impart higher education wirth people expressing
strong intentions to achieve higher qualifications on grounds of their
aspirations of gaining respect as being smarter and intellectual. For them, a
good academic record is passport to improve employment opportunities. As per
them, there is no parameter to gauge an individual’s capabilities on basis of
natural instincts.
Besides personal and professional
factors, as each field becomes more and more specialized, certain fields do
need better educational feats. To enter in these professions and practice, one must
possess minimum standards of education defined as basic specifications of
relevant field for e.g. one cannot become a doctor or an engineer without
getting minimum relevant graduation.
On the contrary, some sections
firmly believe that intelligence in not at all a factor that has to have a
stamp of varsities and degrees. It has been observed in past most prominent of
the inventors and innovators had not even completed their formal education and
their concepts still hold true and educated lobby actually follows patterns
pioneered by them. Most prominent examples are Bill gates and Dhirubhai Ambani.
To conclude in my view there is
definitely a link between a person’s mental capabilities and academic
credentials, but that is definitely limited to only getting an initial boost
and rest depends on an individual’s natural learning powers and abilities to
negotiate situations.
