Making Mistakes In TED Talk By Jackie Robinson

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Next, Robinson speaks to the prominence of a kids’ willingness to take a chance due to the reason of not fearing being wrong. It is this trait that makes kids special, although as the kids transition into adult hood, the reciprocal occurs. Correspondingly, Robinson proposes the idea of how making mistakes, something apart of what makes everyone humans is now disdained. Ideally, making mistakes assists in the growth process, however viewing mistakes as the absolute worst possibility to occur, then we are enabling people out of their creative minds. A key point Robinson remarks within his TED Talk is that no matter where you are around the world, the education systems appear to have a construction of hierarchy of subjects. For instance, mathematics

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