If altitude, how high you reach in your role at school, is interpreted as your potential, then determining your altitude is the result of the attitude you bring to that equation, plus the aptitude nurtured by your employer via professional development opportunities.
I have always followed the advice of Southwest Airlines, where their human resource department states that they "hire for attitude, and train for altitude." Given the inevitable changes in education - technological, political, economic,... - it does little good to hire someone on the basis of possession of a skill that may be ephemeral and soon replaced by the next new thing. Rather, hire those people who genuinely display the attitude your organization values (cooperation, communication, compassion...), demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning, and exhibit at least average levels of achievement.
The employer is responsible for cultivating these ingredients in pursuit of individual and organizational success.
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