He Who Lives By The Crystal Ball

I Believe That Our Society's "mistake-phobia" Is Crippling, A Problem That Begins In Most Elementary Schools, Where We Learn To Learn What We Are Taught Rather Than To Form Our Own Goals And To Figure Out How To Achieve Them. We Are Fed With Facts And Tested And Those Who Make The Fewest Mistakes Are Considered To Be The Smart Ones, So We Learn That It Is Embarrassing To Not Know And To Make Mistakes. Our Education System Spends Virtually No Time On How To Learn From Mistakes, Yet This Is Critical To Real Learning.

I Don't Think There Is Such A Thing As The Perfect System.

When People Get At Each Other's Throat, The Rich And The Poor And The Left And The Right And So On, And You Have A Basic Breakdown, That Becomes Very Threatening.

We Wouldn't Be Successful If We Didn't Have Independent Thinkers Who Can Argue And Then Resolve Their Arguments.

People Who Worry About Looking Good Typically Hide What They Don't Know And Hide Their Weaknesses, So They Never Learn How To Properly Deal With Them And These Weaknesses Remain Impediments In The Future.