For the past 5 years we have gained a well-rounded education from this place we call school. Where we have sat in complex maths lessons trying to figure out one impossible equation. Where we have sat in physics lessons, understanding how our universe was formed. Where we have sat in frustrating but funny art lessons trying to draw self-portraits and spending most of thelesson rubbing out the drawing rather than actually putting pencil to paper and drawing the portrait. But education isn't just the process of sitting in a loud busy classroom being taught how to work out Pythagoras Theorem. Educating is the process of learning as a whole whether that be speaking to a friend and understanding their thoughts and emotions or arguing with your mum about tidying your room just to realise you were in the wrong and now need to form an apology. Although that is the main think we associate with learning, education throughout the first 18 years of our life, we only learn a limited out of info at school compared to through experiences in the rest of our complex lives. We live in a world where the people believe a few GCSE exams at the end of our last year of school determine how intelligent we are as a whole, where the future of our lives and wealth is based off of how many people we know and connections we have rather than our work ethic and emotional intelligence, where we determine someone's worth for a good & successful life through their little GCSE results. Quite frankly, I find this alarming. What if that day the student had an exam there mom died and they could not concentrate in the exam hall because of their overwhelming grief? What if a student had to sit one of their GCSEs the same day they find out their career was terminal and in their last few months of life they were forced to spend their finite important time left on earth sitting GCSEs that would not even help them at all and had no worth to them? How can we make these students have their worth determined on their qualifications from their exams that they sat in grief orfine them because they did not spend their last months on Earth sitting stressful, tiring examinations that would never benefit them. I personally believe that a person's intelligence and future wealth career should never be determined on their qualifications from school but rather be based off their maturity and experiences and lessons that have taught them important skills. For example, Donald Trump did well in his school examinations and had excellent qualifications and education in school but would you count him as a mature and intelligent president? He has a criminal record and has caused havoc to the economy and people of America because of his own stupidity and lack of morals and maturity. But he did well in school and had a good education, so can we really trust schools in creating mature, kind and open-minded individuals? So how do we fix the education system? We must take into consideration a person's emotional intelligence and personality alongside their qualifications before accepting them into prestigious universities or into jobs and careers. We cannot keep letting corrupt, selfish leaders take control of our countries and keep causing war and masses of death of innocent civilians just because they did well in a few school examinations. We must put the people through maturity and personality examinations before letting them have this much control over our lives. Why? Because otherwise they will never understand how to have mature disagreements and conversations with other rulers without leading to deadly destructive war. Because otherwise they will not care about our environment and the future of the younger generations on this fragile planet, leading to the extinction of the human species as a whole. As recently as last month figures indicate that over 100,000 innocent civilians die each year as a result of war and conflict between leaders avoiding GOV UK. This is concerning. We cannot continue letting these immature, selfish leaders control whether innocent civilians live or die. A leader should be trustworthy, caring and emotionally intelligent, and these kinds of individuals cannot be created purely through school education and their exam qualifications. Education must be taught through life experiences and relationships and this maturity that is developed through experiences must be the main factor in determining someone's intelligence, not just their GCSE results.