Friday, October 4, 2013

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." -- John Burroughs

'Fail Better' photo (c) 2012, Feral78 - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

This week's key word is failure, so Blog A will be an examination of failure. Are kids allowed to fail, encouraged to fail, protected from failure, pressured not to fail or some combination? Is there a safe space to fail (in schools, families, societies, etc.)? Discuss, explain, probe your opinions around this issue of failure. What role does failure play in people's lives and what impact does it (or the lack of it) have? Use at least one quote from any reading/audio/video that talks about this issue.

Blog B asks you to put some of your thoughts into practice. Choose some aspect of college that you feel as if you are failing at (even just a little bit). Work on this issue this week, and see if you can make any headway on it. Write about your failure and process of accepting it, or fighting it, and/or working on it and trying to grow from it. What can you learn from this experience?

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