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We try to talk to parents about having to sort of make it O.K. for there to be challenge, because that’s where learning happens.”

If your premise is that your students are lacking in deep traits like grit and gratitude and self-control, you’re implicitly criticizing the parenting they’ve received — which means you’re implicitly criticizing your employers.

Randolph wants his students to succeed, of course — it’s just that he believes that in order to do so, they first need to learn how to fail.

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

When a program runs and produces a good result, it's perfect. It's awfully hard to define success the same way in the humanities. What we do, teaching or writing, can always be better. The program will never simply run.