Failure Teaching Philosophy Testing 
Faculty Focus
APRIL 17, 2025
I found myself sitting in a classroom, staring at a test I couldnt answer. But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly.
Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2023
Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other. And that probably reflects some educational failures, though not just educational failures.
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