“Is education the only way to success? “ Nowadays, most people believe that a good education is the key to success in life and that only education will young people achieve such success. As to many people, success may be symbolized as getting a highly-paid job, having a fast expensive car and living in big posh house. All of these materials can be easily attained when you are very well educated and jobs offers are knocking to your door instead. However, this might not be true. There are many exceptional cases when sometimes even you have received good education while studying overseas, you can’t find well-paid job. This is for the reason the skills, which you have learned may not be useful in getting you the job you want. Moreover, a good education is also not the only path to success. You need a bit of luck, chances and willingness to make it to success. That explains why successful people with low academic results being rich and famous. They are the ones who believed in their own efforts and knew how to exploit rare opportunities, which will help successful people. Even though they may only have little knowledge. In addition, by studying we gain only theoretical knowledge. Students cannot put it into practice. Students know a lot, but they do not know how it works. Employers also require from prospective employee a variety of experiences. It is hard to acquire experience when students have been learning only theory for 5 years. To sum up, I think that instead of using wealth to measure other people’s achievements and successes in life, we should use our happiness. A person may be a very successful man when he or she had all the money in the world, but his life would be empty meaningless if he or she feels dejected. On contrary, an ordinary man can be pleased and happy when he or she is healthy or has a happy family.