This research examines the perceptions students have about the educational system and how they form aspirations about their academic and their professional future. Students’ perceptions are analyzed in 6 semi-structured interviews as they are shaped by the involvement of cultural capital, resistance theories and educational identity that the school requires the student to construct. These perceptions shape the pupil’s relationship with the educational system, which in Greece is the “ticket” to enter the University. Students who fail to reshape their identity as requsted by the school, which defines a “good student” model, come into conflict with the educational system, adopt opposing attitudes towards it. The perceptions that they shape both for knowledge and for the teaching methods affects their aspirations and goals. For example, it affects the choice of a guidance group in the 2nd class of Lyceum, which then gives them access to specific Universities.