Just as we don't know pleasure without pain, fullness without hunger or black without white, we can't define success without its opposite. Someone who is not free to fail is not truly free to succeed."
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
good read: losing the freedom to fail
"The fraud is a perfect illustration of the doomed and misguided zeal to sandpaper failure from American life. Students waste their educational years and are not forced to develop the knowledge and skills that will prepare them for life after school. Most realize they have been duped only when they collide with a wall that hasn't been lowered to meet their stunted abilities. Had they been allowed to fail earlier, they'd have a far better chance of leading productive lives as adults.
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