So why do so
many C-grade students find great success in later life when we are all trained
to believe that only high grades mean high success?
Feel
embarrassed about your chemistry GCSE grade? Or your economics A-level? Here’s
why you shouldn’t be – thanks to George W. Bush.
The former
President is living proof that average grades at the age of 16 does not
determine an average professional career.
As part of
his commencement address to new graduates from Southern Methodist University in
Dallas – President Bush said: ‘To those of you who are graduating this
afternoon with high honours, awards and distinctions, I say, “Well done”.
‘And as I
like to tell the C-students: You too, can be president.’
Some might
say ‘Dubya’ was simply helped into the White House by his father (who
incidentally was a C-grade student)…
But can the
same be said about fellow academic underachiever and Virgin founder, Richard
Branson who dropped out of education aged 15.
‘I cannot
begin to impress upon you how irrelevant it becomes,’ he said.
So why?
Well, based
on the example; is the ability to learn from failure, perseverance and solid
networking skills.
Very true
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