Freedom to Fail scholarship essay

I watched the YouTube video based on the book New Threats to Freedom. Michael Goodwin spoke in the video called “Freedom to Fail”. He talked about how at different schools teachers will pass students who deserved to fail. I noticed this when I was taking distance learning classes. The teachers would grade on a curve allowing me extra points on my exams and letting me pass a test I ought to have failed.

My point is that we need to give and have the opportunity to fail. America should step up their education passing only those students who have worked hard and actually deserve it. Goodwin talked about when we pass something that we fail in we do not really know what we are supposed to do when we get in a situation that requires that knowledge. What is the point of going to school if we are not allowed to fail, then learn to be the best that we can be? Schools these days do not allow for growth when they pass a failing student. Many students will not be able to go to college because of their lack of learning or lack of motivation to learn.

Here is an example: if a parent pays some of their children for just sitting around all day and also pays those children who do their chores, the unproductive children will not learn to be productive with their time. They will also not learn how to be mature adults when they grow up, since the majority of the time of being an adult is work.

If everyone passed at everything we would not have good presidents or star athletes since they would not have learned their profession well. If a book publisher passed every single book that an author sent to them without editing and published it, then the author would not learn how to make his writing better. Failure brings growth when you take a step further to learn the solution. It will not always be easy to grow through your failure; it is the only way to really grow as a person. We need time to grow and failing, when we need to fail, is a step heading in the right direction.