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Failure, Pain and Holden Caulfield

October 15th, 2010 No comments

J. D. Salinger

We’ve all heard the line about failure being a great opportunity to learn. We learn from our mistakes and all that. I tend to believe it, but I’m not sure we practice what we preach.
Imagine a student (or teacher, for that matter) being delighted because they failed an assignment – ‘Yay, now I’ve got an opportunity to really learn it!’
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