ClassCast Podcast Clip 019.5 includes a segment we call "Open Mic," in which the guests get time to talk about anything they want that wasn't already covered in the conversation.\xa0 Tim "The Shop Teacher" Gregory addresses the necessity of failure: "Let them fail." Host Ryan Tibbens later follows up with one of his favorite quotes about education from the great Thomas Dewey: "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." Enjoy this quick clip in which two successful teachers address the necessity of failure in education and why grade consciousness might be limited learning.\xa0
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