will we perform better in our studies if we were in better schools?

we had a discussion on this during recess.
some of us agreed with it, while the rest didn't. they thought that it didn't really matter which school you came from, but whether you were willing to work hard or not. we thought that if we were given a chance to be in a better school, our grades would definitely be better, with the better influence we have around us.


i think it all boils down to peer pressure.

those who succumb to peer pressure are often the ones who would do what their friends do. however such people only see what their friends do in school and thus mimic them throughout the day in whatever they do. but such people (the ones succumbing to peer pressure) often fail to realise that what their friends do at school, they don't do at home. for example, a playful person maybe a hardworking person at home, yet his friends do not know. so when he studies at home, his friends continue to play incessantly thinking that this is what their friend would be doing now. hence their grades suffer.

however if the friend was hardworking (let me cite some of my friends: larry; brandon; nicholas) the peer pressure dude would then think that it is normal to be studying the whole day and hence would adopt a positive attitude towards studying. this would then be evident in their grades.

hence i do think that its the people you choose as friends at school that really determines your academic performance. this justifies my point that being in a better school can help improve our grades. in a better school, there would be less 'slacker' kinds and more mugging people. mix with them and you can be assured better grades.

my friends did argue on the point that if you were stupid, nothing that you do will make you smarter. that is, of course true, but if we put two equally smart and equally impressionable people in contrasting environments, the results would surely show that they'd adapt to their surroundings and behave like their friends.

confident and healthy-ego people who never get influenced by anything but what they want to will never understand how we feel.