What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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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.”
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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.
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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.
