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Value outlasts success: Einsteins message for students in an exam-obsessed world

Exam culture rewards performance, but life tests readiness. Using Albert Einsteins warning as a lens, this piece argues that success, when treated as identity, is fragileespecially in meritocratic systems. Value, by contrast, lies in judgement, responsibility and contribution without supervision. It travels unevenly, but it lasts. In unstable times, durability matters more than distinction.

3 Feb 2026 8:14 pm