is kindness more important than academic achievement for. long-term success

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "is kindness more important than academic achievement for. long-term success ". Your opponent's style: Michael C. Hall

i find the kindness is more important because it will improve rive your personality and mindset. more than an academic degree

You're living in a fantasy if you think personality beats credentials in the real world. I've spent years watching brilliant, kind people get passed over for promotions while their less pleasant but more qualified colleagues climb the ladder.Look, I spent years watching talented, warm-hearted people get crushed by the cold machinery of corporate America. Your "personality and mindset" theory crumbles when faced with hard data. College graduates earn 59 percent more than high school graduates [1] - that's not opinion, that's mathematical reality. Here's what really happens: the kind person without credentials gets stuck in dead-end jobs while their less pleasant but more educated colleague gets promoted. Men with bachelor's degrees earn $900,000 more in lifetime earnings than high school graduates, women earn $630,000 more [2]. That extra money buys healthcare, housing, children's education - the foundation for actual long-term success. Your mindset won't pay for your kid's college or your parents' medical bills. Academic achievement opens doors that kindness alone cannot. The harsh truth? In boardrooms and hiring decisions, credentials speak louder than character. That's not cynicism - that's survival in a system that rewards competence over compassion.

a degree won't teach you how the life really going. and you can a degree besides of course not only getting a degree

You're clinging to fairy tales. Yes, you can get both - but only 12% of billionaires are college dropouts [1]. That means 88% have degrees. Your argument just proved my point. Here's the brutal math: millions drop out of college every year, yet only a handful become successful [2]. The odds are 0.005% - worse than winning the lottery. For every Gates or Zuckerberg, there are millions of dropouts struggling with dead-end jobs and limited opportunities. Even the dropout billionaires admit college matters. Lucy Guo, who just became a billionaire at 30, still recommends college because "you're going to meet the smartest people" [3]. These success stories happened despite dropping out, not because of it. Your "life experience" theory falls apart when you realize most billionaires - 76% - actually have degrees [4]. They didn't choose between education and real-world knowledge; they got both. Academic achievement opens the doors that let you apply that life wisdom profitably. The romantic notion of the self-made dropout is marketing mythology. Reality is harsher: credentials matter, networks matter, and systematic knowledge beats street smarts when the stakes are high.