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Learning to Fail
March 15, 2012
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-Indira Gandhi

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In an editorial in Education Week (February 1, 2012), Angel Perez, a dean of admissions at Pitzer College, shared her concern that students arrive at college without knowing how to fail.  She observed...

"I've spent enough time in high schools to know teenagers will never be perfect.  They do silly things, mess up, fall down, and lack confidence.  The ability to bounce back is a fundamental life skill students have to learn on their own.  The lessons of failure can't be taught in the classroom;  they are experienced and reflected upon....  Failure is about growth, learning, overcoming, and moving on.  Let's allow young people to fail."





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Diana Suskind
International Early Childhood Consultant
 Leominster, MA, United States
03/15/2012 05:18 am

This article reminds me of a quote the late infant specialist, Magda Gerber wrote about toddlers:
"Learning to fall, getting up again and moving on is the best preparation for life." Magda Gerber
I would like to add, it really isn't any different for teenagers, infact for all of us, because falling down and getting up again is a life time process.
Respectfully,
Diana Suskind, RIE Associate


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