As a teacher, my goal is to help my students learn how to do something. Whether it is writing a paper, punctuating a sentence, or reading an article critically, I want my students to do it "the right way." While I hopefully allow my students to make mistakes and learn from them, there are definitely times when I'm probably too narrow-minded in this regard. This article about Google X on the Fast Company website really opened my eyes when it talked about how a large company like Google views mistakes.
I had never heard of Google X before reading this article, but it is interesting how they ENCOURAGE their employees to fail because they will learn from those failures. Hopefully there will be a day in my teaching career when learning from a failure will be valued as much as doing something "right" because I don't want my students to fear failure. I can think of many times in my life when I failed but learned a valuable lesson or solved another problem on which I hadn't even been focusing. This article emphasizes that failure can be okay, and I hope to instill that value in my students.
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