Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.
Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
Writing can't be taught.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
You fail only if you stop writing.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.