Definitions -#301- #47 - “Access” versus “Achievement”

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Unless you recognize the difference, you might be satisfied with just “access”.

“Access” means what is “available”…..”Achievement” is what you do with “access” (after it becomes available.)

You can “access” almost any school, but what you do when you are “enrolled” makes the difference!
You can “access” any job but what you do at that job determines the eventual outcome. (in most instances.)….. (After all, you do not determine the “bosses”!)
You can “access” any amount of information but what is a “fact” and what is an “opinion” is left up to you.

So, what you see is the difference between “access” and “achievement” (or what you do)!

In any discussion the difference between “access” to the information and whether or not you use this as a point of information or whether you announce it as an “opinion” has a lot to do with the direction of the discussion. Normally an “opinion” is just that… “an opinion”. It does not need to be accepted as a “fact”. You can always disagree with an “opinion” but can you disagree with a “fact”?
So the direction of the discussion follows the determination of “opinion versus fact”!
Too often the difference is NOT decided beforehand.

When a student enters school, he might take this “entering” as a mark of achievement but in reality what he learns may be far different than even he expects. It might be the way the curriculum is chosen. It might be the way the curriculum is presented. It might be a number of things. But what the student does with his new knowledge is “true achievement”.
Hence, the difference between “access” and “achievement”.

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