Exams Should Not Determine Your Fate

Education has always been one of the important attribute to success. Those who do not have an education are frown upon in this society. People start to believe that they will be judge and set on a level base on their education. Therefore, many high school and college students work hard with determination in getting that perfect grade scores and being accepted to the top colleges. As people kept a closed mindset, Suli Break, a spoken word poet with a great mindset, set out to inspire and educate young people about the constant issues that we all face. One of his poems, “I will not let an exam result decide my fate”, had caught my whole attention because he addresses issues about the controversy of society and education. Today, society had been misleading us thru education for their self gain and had made us believe of our self worth base on society.

There are a lot of mothers or fathers who will say something along the lines of: “You know to get a good job, you need a good degree and these subjects will help you get a degree, we never had this opportunity when I was younger.” It is true that in order to get a good degree, we must take these subjects but “although all her adult life, she has never used or applied Pythagorean Theorem, Pathetic fallacy, and does not know the value of “X”.” There are a lot of subjects that we are required to take but we have never really used it in the real life. This is a way of the government fooling us in to giving them money by paying for these classes. Suli states that “Government, that preach peace, but endorse war, that say they believe so much in the importance of higher education and further learning, then why increase tuition fees every single year?” Basically, he is saying that the govern...

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...y are standing on what it seems to be like a business work place where people with suit and ties walk pass them. His message becomes stronger as you see the setting of this spoken word poem.

As society misled us thru education and determines our worth, it is really up to us to either have a fixed mindset and accept it or have a greater mindset and go beyond expectations. We allow ourselves to be taken by society perception of what success is which make us don’t want to pursuit some careers because it is frown upon. We shall not let society or even our parents to stop us from pursuing our goal. We shall not let a letter or a number tell us how smart we are. So don’t let something else dictate your potential or tell you how much you’re worth. Escape from the cage and fly freely without someone else’s will stopping you. We shall not let an exam result decide our fate.