Failure

We've been talking a decent amount of failure, and if it's the current student's downfall that they don't fall down enough. Hellicopter parents hover around their children so much and prevent true learning--through trial and error--that children aren't allowed to learn in their own way. It is my feeling that it isn't necessarily the students who are afraid of failure--rather that teachers (because failure reflects badly on them) and especially parents are afraid of seeing their shining star make a mistake. Because society is afraid of failure, it eventually and naturally leads to a stigma about failure, and kids create their own distorted fear of danger and mistakes.



Here's a humorous (and sadly true) story I stumbled upon this morning about a group of teachers in London.