I hope to bring about in my students an understanding of failure and challenge as transformative experiences. Few people luck into the right answers or A essays. Few people are born knowing how to infer meaning from complex texts. Few people meet Shakespeare's works for the first time and regard them as easy. Challenge and failure help people make meaning and forge new connections in people's brains.
Don't let yourself "plateau early." Don't let yourself "ignore useful negative feedback." Don't "feel threatened by the success of others." Embrace the true educational value of failure.
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