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Sparking innovation in engineering education
[Source: ASU News] - Winslow Burleson is convinced that budding engineers and scientists could be better educated if colleges and universities gave them more opportunities to fail. He encourages “failing early and often.”
It may be the most effective way of helping novices overcome the fear of failure that is “a significant barrier to learning,” says the Arizona State University engineer.
Some of the world’s most successful people and leading experts have excelled precisely because they have failed again and again, he says.
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