Students who responded positively believed that the failure was a learning moment: an opportunity to understand what caused the failure and how to improve for the next try.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
― An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
― An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
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