{"id":15251,"date":"2014-02-16T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/?p=15251"},"modified":"2014-02-16T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:23:35","slug":"and-why-failing-is-the-only-way-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2014\/02\/16\/and-why-failing-is-the-only-way-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"And why failing is the only way to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embracing Hard Work<\/strong>

\n Our educational system is almost designed to foster a fixed mind-set. Think about how a typical English class works: You read a \u201cgreat work\u201d by a famous author, discussing what the messages are, and how the author uses language, structure, and imagery to convey them. You memorize particularly pithy quotes to be regurgitated on the exam, and perhaps later on second dates. Students are rarely encouraged to peek at early drafts of those works. All they see is the final product, lovingly polished by both writer and editor to a very high shine. When the teacher asks \u201cWhat is the author saying here?\u201d no one ever suggests that the answer might be \u201cHe didn\u2019t quite know\u201d or \u201cThat sentence was part of a key scene in an earlier draft, and he forgot to take it out in revision.\u201d\n
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\n \u201cYou never see the mistakes, or the struggle,\u201d says Dweck. No wonder students get the idea that being a good writer is defined by not writing bad stuff.\n
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\n in the process of trying to secure one for their kids, parents are depriving them of what they really need: the ability to learn from their mistakes, to be knocked down and to pick themselves up\u2014the ability, in other words, to fail gracefully. That is probably the most important lesson our kids will learn at school, and instead many are being taught the opposite.
\n Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It is not only the kids that should learn from their mistakes \u2014 something I may well have forgotten sometime ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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