Last class we had a heated debate discussing points in a story called 'mother tongue' by amy tan, who is a successful english writer, but at first she speaks about how she didn't really score so well in her english tests, and i think that is because tests do not portray your true ability in that subject. I believe that tests do not test your intelligence, they test your memory.
I know of many successful people who really just do not test well, for example Albert Einstein, who did not do well in school and as we all very well know he was one of the smartest men of his time. And a famous quote he said really stuck with me; "everybody is a genius, but if you test a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole life believing that is is stupid". When we focus on the things that people do wrong we are doing a very wrong thing. we are not giving them the support they deserve to do anything to their full potential. In the story Amy Tan discusses how she was directed to do anything but english because her marks showed otherwise, but she ignored their comments and went on to study english and now is very successful.
If we let a piece of paper with a mark on it determine our future we will not go very far in life, i think people should just choose something they are passionate about and stick with it, because in the end if you let people push you on a subject just because you get good marks then you will live your whole life feeling miserable, you may be successful, but success is not the only thing that matters.
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