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Because college isn't the real world. That's the simplest explanation.
by askafriend 6y ago
Because college isn't the real world. That's the simplest explanation.
- raztogt21 6y agoI was thinking this today. In college/school, you can score an A+. It is even possible to do it for everything. Accomplishment is so easy to measure. In the real world, there is no A+. Not even being Bezos, founding Stripe, or playing center forward for Real Madrid. The A+ concept doesn't exist.
- d33lio 6y agoThis has always resonated with me and it's a big reason I think people who are "good" at school stay in academia. It's a consistent and reliably good measure of "I'm good at this thing" however damaging to society it is for those people to never do more than climb ladders...