Your worth - For Students

-Written by Moses Alhassan

Have you ever felt worthless because you got a bad grade?
Do you think you don't measure up to academic standards?

Don't worry if your answers to the above are "Yeses". Through out basic and high school, I have realized that students who give the wrong answers to questions are normally laughed at by other students and teachers. It's sad how society frowns on students who do not get the required grades. Should this be the way we can make positive impact?

Moses Alhassan -with Basic school students
I love what Albert Einstein Said...he once said "everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing its stupid/worthless. Our modern day school has helped a lot of students in so many ways...particularly those who are good with memorizing. But on a larger scale, our current educational system not only make fishes climb trees, but also makes them climb down. Millions of  students are being turned in to robots; their creative abilities are being slayed by standardized testing and other procedures that do not help maximize who they are are or what they can do.

A lot of students think they are useless just because their abilities and awesome talents do not conform to the requisites of our educational system. Some even commit suicide. Our educational system is killing the creative abilities of millions of students.

Most of the successful people today are not valedictorians or the "best students". This gives us a better understanding that intelligence goes beyond memorizing concepts and theories. Solving major global problems is what makes one truly intelligent.

Thousands of students are taking steps to solve problems and that's inspiring. A lot of schools have made their curriculum flexible and that's awesome too. But it's not enough...we need to encourage students around the world, so they know that they are special in their own way. We need to strive to get good grades...but what's more important is to solve problems with what we get A's and B's for; otherwise, the essence of the getting those grades wouldn't matter.

To all the students out there; you are special and irrespective of the grades you get, you can still make a difference in a great way. Strive to always be a better version of yourself each.

WHAT PROBLEM ARE YOU SOLVING?


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