Instigator / Pro
1
1500
rating
2
debates
50.0%
won
Topic
#6134
Are grades important
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 2 votes and with the same amount of points on both sides...
It's a tie!
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 4
- Time for argument
- One week
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Winner selection
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
1
1500
rating
33
debates
60.61%
won
Description
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Round 1
Grades are important because it shows that you are studying regularly and have an understanding of the basics of economics, physics, biology and history, for example, and you only learn all of that if you get grades for your actions.
Important definition
"of great significance or value"
Not all people place much value on grades. There are much more important things. Grades arent even goal, but the knowledge is goal. So knowledge is of great value, not grades themselves there.
Round 2
In the world we live in, you need good grades to achieve anything. I'm not saying you can't achieve anything with bad grades, but well-paying jobs often require a degree, and for that, you need good grades. Rich people can have bad grades, but there are very few rich people, and to be on the safe side, you'd better have good grades.
Some people prefer their free time, and good grades arent necessary to have a job. In fact, with only less than 17 years of free time which adult gets in his whole life, it makes sense to make most out of his childhood free time.
Round 3
You can also have good grades and enjoy your childhood. And "making the most of your childhood free time" is something that is individual for everyone.
Not everyone likes studying. There are better things to do.
Round 4
Ok but most people dont want or like to work so if you study now for like you said "17 years " you can get a job you want or like.
I wouldnt ever want to study. Its boring and pointless. Nothing I learned in school ever helped me in life. Its just how they lure you to study. In reality, the job you work might not have anything to do with all what you learned in school. My free time life expectancy is already much higher than that of average American. Average adult American only has 17 years of free time in his whole life.
Grades are important. It tells us how much we need improvement or have already improved in a particular subject. However, what you argue is that grades aren't important because you hate studying. That just means you just hate the way of teaching in school which I hate too. An interactive school where we are actually taught lessons which we will need in life would be much better.