Agree or disagree with the following statement: it is more important to award students for effort (trying or hard working) than for achievement (good grades).
Complaints about the high education fees nowadays are everywhere. Meanwhile, we notice that universities are creating numerous titles for different scholarships so as to appease the situation. But one thing is for sure, students can only be conferred awards by their outstanding achievement, while far from enough only by the efforts they’ve made. That means, students’ effort doesn’t deserve the same attention compared to their achievement.
On the one hand, it’s a human nature to lay more emphasis on achievement than effort in that the very thing we use to judge somebody is his success but not failures or tries. Edison’s hundreds times’ attempts on materials of filaments probably still remain pathetically unknown if he hadn’t gotten the luck to light the last bulb up. Apparently, the pair of scales of the people judgement slants from effort to achievement to a large extent. Hemingway once said and I paraphrase that every creature is born to win. Therefore, encourages given on students’ effort should not be equal to that of their achievement which otherwise might contribute to students’ doubts on taking priority to win.
On the other hand, whenever students endeavored a lot but didn’t wrap up, what’s more conductive to them is instruction rather than award. It’s just the same as the fact that a good dog-trainer never put food into a puppy’s mouth until it finishes its right movement. As to students, generally speaking, being diligent but inefficient indicates there must be something abnormal about the methods been taken. In this way, maybe a piece of advise to help them take the essence and discard the dregs seems to be more critical than a meaningless award.
However, as far as I concerned, there hardly exists a clear discrimination between whether a specific award is given out for effort or achievement. Virtually, when a student is conferred a prize for his accomplishment, it’s also a sincere respect to strivings he has been made. For example, a toast to a successful man would definitely be superficial if it only reveals what titles he has attained but not a clue of how much hardship they needed. So I’m inclined to say the statement cannot bear closer analysis due to the fact that achievement is impossible to make without much effort to take.
In conclusion, it can never be too important to award students for achievement. While to those who still get lost in desert after continuous attempts, the direction to an oasis is much more significant than just a glass of water.