Systems that are designed to tolerate zero human error will fail. Humans are not perfect.
Being imperfect makes us human. Making mistakes makes us great.
Our first steps are not world-record runs. Prototypes get improved. From failure comes knowledge.
And yet in school, we are trained to do things right. School rewards us for correct answers and reprimands us for, uhm, creative solutions.
When the purpose of school education is to train our kids for life after school, then one wonders what educators think this life looks like.
Because apparently we do not get trained to create; we get trained to function.
I challenge you to make three intentional “mistakes” per day. (Don’t kill yourself, doing it, though).
Hold fork and knife with the other hands, use twice as much coffee powder, combine cheese and jelly, whatever you can think of.
You’ll eventually stumble over a good mistake.