1.1 Inspirational Quote

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  Posted by CUNY Mindset Initiative on December 26, 2023 at 4:27 pm

  1.1 Inspirational Quote

  “Failure is a greater teacher than success.”​

  —  Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  💬  Discussion:

  1. Respond to this quote: Comment, reflect, agree/disagree, share a similar or contradictory quote, or provide an example to support or reject this quote. You may use text, video, audio, etc.
  2. Respond constructively and substantively (≥2 sentences) to another participant’s comments.

• Keisha Lewars

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:11 pm

  The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. –Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Quintis Pinder

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:12 pm

  we often learn more from our failures than our successes.
  Patrick J Wallach

  Participant

  September 10, 2024 at 4:12 pm

  In baseball, a batting average of 0.333 (a hit 1/3 of the time) is considered great!

   
  Valerie Khait

  Participant

  September 10, 2024 at 4:13 pm

  “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” —Chris Bradford is another complementary quote for this idea and expands on the idea that we learn more from “failing” than from success.
  Anna Huger (She/Her)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:14 pm

  I think this a great quote! I would also add that with the discomfort from failure comes the joy of success.
  Victoria Del Zotto (She/Her/)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

  We tend to learn more from our mistakes. Sometimes failing pushes us to try harder the next time around.
  Christopher Stein

  Participant

  September 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

  I agree with this quote in general, although an important part of being able to learn from your failures is to know WHY you failed so that you can make an adjustment to your approach when you try again. In teaching we don’t always help students with that part.

  In a corollary, forgetting is a part of learning. Also knowing what we forgot helps us to know what to learn again so we can remember. Forgetting to Remember — The Learning Scientists
  Qin Latchman (Dr)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

  Sometimes I feel it is just an excuse we give to us. But sometimes does make we feel better.
  Valerie Khait

  Participant

  September 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

  I think we all find that resilience in failing and then trying again. Furthermore, there’s so much more growth.
  Kimberly Wright (She/her)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:15 pm

  I agree that the term ‘failure’ is loaded but I also think it accurately describes the feeling that many students feel when learning something new or different. In this sense, it’s important to keep the word failure because one does learn more from failures and set backs than from success, even if the success involved learning.

   

   
  Abeer Shariff

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:16 pm

  Quote is very true, without failure, what is there to learn? I believe failure is necessary to grow in all aspects of your life.
  Stefan Stankovic

  Participant

  September 10, 2024 at 4:18 pm

  I remembered learning how to ride a bicycle. Fell a number of times, with bruises and dust all over me… By the end of the hot summer week I learned to ride. I guess I could’ve done the learning on some gaming/video platform, but would’ve I been able to ride once out on the street? And, the bonus was learning how to get up and get back on track.
  Abeer Shariff

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:20 pm

  I never thought of failure as a teacher, more of an obstacle that you overcome. I agree that failing to reach a goal may be an indication of something else in relations to the method taken or the goal itself.
  Laura Scheiber (She/her)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:20 pm

  I like the idea of learning from our prior experiences, but personally would switch up the word “failure” as it has such a negative connotation. I absolutely understand the idea of wanting to flip the notion of “failure” on its head, but I would simply use a different term because “failure” is such an emotionally charged term, especially for a lot of our students

  I also think the process of experience followed up with reflection, as our buddy John Dewey highlighted, is a key component in turning an experience into a Learning experience that can inform future action
  Drew Mazur (He/Him)

  Member

  September 10, 2024 at 4:20 pm

  Failure is absolutely the best teacher. I have always learned more actively in the classroom when I had to reflect at the end of the class about what worked for my students, and how different students responded. When I started teaching early on, failure was an important self-teacher as to what students responded to. Outside of the classroom, whenever I failed, it forced me to reassess my life and what I actually wanted to be or change about myself. Some of the most experienced and intelligent people suffered many “failures” in their lives (ie Leonardo Da Vinci, who had many unfinished projects or paintings), but it is a testament to their persistence.