Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
When we obsess over tests, when we teach the way we’re teaching now, we send the wrong message to our students. We’re basically telling them that creativity is a bad idea. That it is a waste of time. That it’s less important than filling the right bubble. And I can’t imagine a worse message than that.