A great piece from KUT’s Two Guys on Your Head on why failure is important in education. Our propensity for avoiding mistakes, and teaching our children that failure is not ok, leads to a lack of training in experimentation. There’s a great analogy in this bit on the use of training wheels on a child’s bike to allow for limited failure (tipping from side to side) while preventing catastrophic failure (falling over).
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