English Answer Key
English Answer Key
English Answer Key
A study made a number of years ago said the more education a man
has, the less likely he is to be an inventor. Now, the reason for that is quite
simple. From the time the boy or girl starts in school, he or she is examined
three or four times a year, and of course, it is very, very disastrous if he/she
fails. An inventor fails all the time and it is a triumph if he succeeds once.
Consequently, if education is an inhibition to invention, it is due entirely to
the form by which we rate things and not because of any intellectual
differential.
I can take any group of young people any place, and teach them to
be inventors, if I can get them to throw off the hazard of being afraid to fail.
You fail because your ideas are not right. You should not be afraid to fail,
but you should learn to fail intelligently. BY that I mean, when you fail, find
out why you failed, and each time you fail it will bring you nearer to the
goal.
-from 100 Stories You can Use by Frank Mihalic