50-50?

I'm an english teacher so this is hard for me for I have 50-50 opinion on this. As society dictates, it's a mandatory that you go to school in order to land a good job in the future. At school you learn to establish yourself, you learn what you want and what direction you want your life will lead. School is where you first explore,learn things and open up to the real world. School is good but I don't think that you can only learn things from there. I am a firm believer that if you wanted to learn something, you find a way to learn it. Persevere and work hard on something that you want. Some would disagree on this but I don't think that the success of a person is based on how well he did at school but rather how hard he worked for his achievements. There are so many successful people out there who didn't even get to finish college. What i'm trying to say is that, whether or not you go to school, your success depends on you.