MICHELLE HARWELL MFT

Let’s face it. If your objective is just to get top honors rather than realize what school is for, you may be off-tangent. You may be expending efforts in the wrong direction or for the wrong end. You are in school to earn an education. Being on top of your class and getting honors and praises for it are merely incidental.

Education, in the authentic sense, is not just storing knowledge for vanity, future employment or business. It is much broader and deeper than that. Education is meant to make you a rounded individual who can bring himself to the highest level of his total potential for his own happiness and the good of human society. Someone said that education really means fitting man for living. You are in school for a reason no less dignified and dignifying than this.

Are you in school because you want to be admired as the best in class? Or only to insulate yourself from the pain of failure? To get easy employment later? Or are you in school because you want to learn as much as you can, realizing that knowledge is an excellent possession? If you have other objectives, look inside you and assess these objectives.

Without a fixed destination, you will drift. You will be aimless, and aimlessness cannot produce success. you must work less, and aimlessness cannot produce success. You must work hard for it, paddle with your aim as the only direction and in the process you take chances and risks. But because you are inspired and guided by a destination, risk and sufferings are too week to beat you down. You even improvise methods of attaining your objectives faster, easier an more accurately.