How to teach CHILDREN innovation. F is the best grade !

We got it all wrong. In schools everywhere F is the worst grade. F stands for Failure.

Meantime, we know that in the adult world the innovation and success in general is a successful result from a string of failures.

Successful companies like Google embrace F, the Failure, they learn from it and they succeed in the end.

In math and science classes there should be two grades.

K - keep trying, you are getting close

M - move on to the next task, you are done

We are so over-focused on motivating children and young adults with success, that we forget that we are not teaching them the life lessons.

In real life, and in innovation in particular, success is the tip of the iceberg that everyone sees. They do not see your persistence, your struggles, your self-doubts.

There is no point in giving someone F or D or B in math or any other science, and moving to something else. It does not teach children the right thing - to get things right, to understand, and most important, to persevere.

Failure is only a failure if we do not learn anything from it.

Be it in school or at work, get a K - Keep ON Going.

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Please read my other articles such as this one: Two words that get you a raise. You can repeat them OFTEN.