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Removing the concept of failure from my mind has been instrumental in helping me unlock my potential. Society could probably benefit from this. Learn. Or learn

• white-flame 9y ago
  It depends on what you mean by "failure". Kids need to be confronted with honest evaluations and positive feedback loops about their progress, including things they need to work harder on or redo, in order to reach the expected levels of common baseline education. In the USA, there's just a general pushing through of all kids to the next step regardless of whether or not they actually learned anything, which is simply broken, too. It's missing any notion of failure. However, what we shouldn't do is effectively discard failing kids from ever succeeding, dumping them to the wayside. They just need different types of help than was offered by the bulk instruction, either in content or style.
• taeric 9y ago
  I prefer it as: Learn, or learn something else. Failure is it's own lesson.