Dear English classes
While we learn a lot of English in Room 3-15, the point of all of this furious work is to prepare you for life.
School focusses a lot of attention on exams but no-one gives you a test to write when you are at work.
How can you better prepare yourselves for life, which is, after all, the point of school?
Have a look at these articles and bits of advice. The first article is about succeeding at university, but a lot of it applies to life as well.
Education
Secrets of the Most Successful College Students
This next article looks very intimidating but it is not!
In this article Mr Mike Brown, the CEO of Nedbank discusses a number of issues in a radio interview that was conducted on the Market Update on SAFM (listen every day at 6pm). Most of the interview is not very relevant to you but the LAST question is. Scroll to the bottom of the interview to see what one of the most successful men in the country says to young people like you!
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-safm-market-update/r-885
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