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| NYTimes - Linda Huang |
“The evidence is clear: Academic excellence
is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance
is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of
years.”
“Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork
skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence. Yes, straight-A
students master cramming information and regurgitating it on exams. But career
success is rarely about finding the right solution to a problem — it’s more
about finding the right problem to solve.”
“Getting straight A’s requires conformity.
Having an influential career demands originality.”
“. . . Steve Jobs finished high
school with a 2.65 G.P.A., J.K. Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter
with roughly a C average, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got only one A in his four years at Morehouse.”
“You gain experience coping with failures and
setbacks, which builds resilience.”
“It might also help to stop the madness of grade
inflation, which creates an academic arms race that encourages too many
students to strive for meaningless perfection.”
