which school they go to, how they do in their school and so on...
This symptoms can only tell me that they're short-sighted.

Even if a teenager gets through masters and PHD,

So what? It only means that they are better able to get a job in the society and will be higher look up to.

It doesn't mean they'll be rich in their life, It doesn't mean they'll have financial independence! They can very much be in debt in the later years of their life, getting stuck in a rat race.

Recently I read a really interesting book call "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".
This book clearly shows how parents are influence by the world today, that good degree = successful life! Which is very sad because by having this belief, they will envelope their child's maximum potential and talents.

Everyone is unique and special in their own individual way, by forcing someone to follow what 80% of others are doing, it makes them dull, it makes them common. And the child may also live with regrets later in their life, of not having pursue his dream and his interests when he was much younger. Working for money is sad, Working for the sake of working is pathetic.

And because parents hold such high regards in their child's education, the child is influenced to believe that getting good grades is everything. This makes them hold high regards in their results slip and shutting themselves from all other wonderful things in the world.
And when they start working, they'll be disillusioned, they'll be surprised by the things that they don't know, the things that school doesn't teach them and they politics they face when working.

I'm saying all this not because I hate studying, but because I feel many parents today are disillusioned to an extent that they are controlling their child's life. Having them live the way they want them to. And they never ask, "Son/Daughter, are you happy ?" or "Do you like your life now?"

Often, when parents converse with each other, they always talk about their educational level, their results and the school they are in.

In addition, the school system is flawed, we are only taught how to earn money and never taught how to spend money. Which you can see that many working adults spend their lives paying off debts, never to enjoy financial freedom.

As a child, many often have their ambitions of what they want to be, however, as they grow up, their ambitions and dreams change, because they feel that what they want when they're younger were unrealistic. Which is actually not true, it's just that they too, have become disillusioned like their parents and reality made them give up their dreams.

With this, what I'd like to say is pursue your dream.

And keep chasing it.

Never let people tell you what you can become.
And never judge yourself by the results you get in school and be disillusioned that you're a failure at life.
You too, can become what you want, if you believe, and you fight for it.

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