 |  | | | Teaching children to fail | 29 July 2005 | | |
How to help our children learn from their mistakes
Winston Churchill famously said that "success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
But as a teachers' union proposes that it's time to delete the word "fail" from educational vocabulary and replace it with the concept of "deferred success", what exactly is the best way of dealing with failure and helping our children to learn from their mistakes to pick themselves up and start again?
Jane Little is joined by Annette Mountford, director of Family Links, a charity that works to improve family and school life and Chris Woodhead, former Chief Inspector of Schools.
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