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Not failure, but “deferred success”

Concerned that the label of failure could undermine children’s enthusiasm for school, retired British teacher Liz Beattie will call on the annual gathering of the Professional Association of Teachers to “delete the word ‘fail’ from the educational vocabulary” and to replace it with the concept of “deferred success.” Read more of this story at BBC News.

Posted by David Roberts on 19 July 2005 in Motivation

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