I'm embarrassed to admit that when I was younger, I was under the mistaken impression that achievement in school was an excellent measure of intelligence. A classic overachiever who would settle for nothing less than an A, I sacrificed my intellectual integrity many times to please dogmatic professors. I also routinely underestimated my classmates' abilities.
As I've grown older, I've learned to appreciate the diversity of humanity and marvel at the differences in the way that people think. As the mother of a dyslexic, I've learned through first-hand experience that school grades are neither a proxy for intelligence nor a predictor of future success. As Albert Einstein once said: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
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