Failure
“Failure is the mother of success”, that is what Mary sherry is talking about in this article “In Praise of the F Word”; Mary Sherry states that flunking is an effective teaching tool. Many teenagers graduate every year, and they are maybe have different diplomas because some of their diplomas are meaningless. The author says that teenagers are lack of maturity to their value education. When teenagers find jobs, they may realize their education is important. Employers want to hire people who have more skills. In the reading, teachers and parents are treating failure to be a positive teaching tool. Students can have more experience in the previous behavior. The author also mentions that environments’ good or bad can’t change teens mind to put education in their first list.
The tittle caught my attention because people are proud of failure. If I fail to do something, I feel depressed. After I read the passage, I realize that failure is an important part of the success. We will know why we are fail and how we can improve ourselves. In the reading, the author mentions that flunking is very educational. That means failure can help people to find out themselves and be more confidence. Then, I think that failure can be an experience for teaching in our lives because we should recognize that we all have weakness. But, we can learn ourselves from flunking.
The first reason is failure may affect people’s behavior. When people are defeated in anything, some of them will be upset and the others will learn from experience to think the next step. Just as the author mentions, teenagers would not put education in their first list in their lives. Perhaps teens think studying is boring and do not have any influence in their future. After teens graduate, they have many problems when they are in interview. Then, they may rethink what they have to do. Even though it is not late for them, we should prepare it before we graduate. Problem is not easy to be solved, it always have many different little issue when we are figuring out. Then, people usually have trouble when they want to get solution. For instance, I got a phone call about my job interview and that was my first time. I needed to prepare it. But I thought it was easy and simple, I failed it. The employer asked me some question, I did not know what was that and I did not do some research about their company. After the interview, I realize that I have to do some research before I go to interview. I get experience from this interview and I learn something.
The second reason is flunking is an available teaching tool in our lives. I guess that many people will ask why failure is worthy for teaching. Because people can recognize themselves and they have experience from failure. In the reading, the author says that teachers and parents treat flunking is a positive teaching tool and students will be more confidence. Teenagers get some experience from failure. For example, we have a lot of project to do in our courses. Different professors have different requirement. When I got my first Microsoft Access assignment, I had no idea what was the first step because I had never used it. In addition, I did not have time to stay at school to get help. Then, I followed the intrusion did it step by step, and I sent it to professor for grading. When I got the result, I knew where was wrong and did it again. So I learned a lesson from this assignment. I know I fail in the first time, but I can do it again and improve myself.
In conclusion, flunking may make people unhappy, but it is a good teaching tool in our lives. As the author mentions, teens should have value education. Failure may affect people’ mind, it may lead to be a positive direction and improve themselves People can get experience from failure. Students will be confidence when they find out the solution from flunking. Even though failure is bad, we should grow up after flunking. Failure teaches success.