Despite what we are taught in school, it is perfectly okay to fail. In fact, everyone fails eventually. It is better to accept that now and prepare yourself for when you do fail. Failure is the greatest life teacher.
In school, the goal is to learn the material set before us and be able to pass a test to prove that we understand it. However, there is no room for failure in this system. I'm not saying that failure should be accepted, but rather that it be viewed as a step towards success. What I mean by this is that it should be okay for students to fail at homework or practice tests because if they fail, they can learn from their mistakes and succeed in the end. In my Spanish 3 class, my teacher gave us a surprise reading quiz. I only finished three questions and she told me that she wanted me to do poorly because then when I got it perfect in the end, she will know that I really understand what I'm doing. At first I was kind of disappointed by my score of 2.5 out of 9, but when I remembered what she said, it didn't bother me because it left a lot of room for improvement.
Failure teaches us humility and makes us rethink our course of action. Failure should be taken as a sign that something needs to change. It should never be accepted as a result but utilized during the process. Failure is just a way of saying that you know how not to do something. As Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
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