Your childhood: academically

[Sara516]

Re: Your childhood: academically

@Flâneur

I've heard this a lot; these schools won't make you good people. Schools are not intended for those purposes. Character development is a side effect, not the main purpose of education. The best education should be pursued because it is the highest good and nothing is more important than knowledge and doing something with that. The best libraries, the best faculty are in these schools anyway. Character development is the province of parents.

What's "decent education"? It depends on what you want to do with your life.

It's offensive that you think kids who worry about grades and the "small" increments between an 89 and a 100 are whiny.

I'm a big believer in fate. I say, **do your best, **and leave the rest up to Allah (swt).

I can't say for people who go to Harvard or NYU, but I do know that alot of my peers have great jobs, and are putting their education to the best use they can. If you have the drive, the ambition, then you can succeed. But if you're a lazy person, going to good schools are of no use whatsoever.