Interesting article from Wired Magazine I came across yesterday. Opening paragraph:
The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as �a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.� Bohr�s quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn�t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
Dweck is highlighted in the article as well:
Dweck�s next set of experiments showed how fear of failure can actually inhibit learning. She gave the same fifth graders yet another test. This test was designed to be extremely difficult � it was originally written for eighth graders � but Dweck wanted to see how the kids would respond to the challenge. The students who were initially praised for their effort worked hard at figuring out the puzzles. Kids praised for their smarts, on the other hand, were easily discouraged.(emphasis added)
