The Graduates - And Those Who Failed...

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Err....can a mod please change the title of this thread to...

The Graduates - And Those Who Have Deferred Success


Telling people that they have failed upsets them, makes them feel that they have under-achieved and stops them trying again (well, according to some PC crackpot I read about in my morning paper).
 
Dear Mr Relkeel,

Thank you for your letter of 20th July in which you attempted to arrange for a moderator to alter the title of the current thread.

I am instructed to tell you that you have failed.

Yours sincerely,

Etc, etc
 
Friend's children had their annual Sports Day at the local infants school y'day - if the kid doesn't want to compete, they don't have to - again because of the PC directive of not allowing children to feel they're failures...

So basically lazy kids get away with being even lazier, habituate to that ethos and will find it virtually impossible to self-motivate themselves as young adults...

Crazy.
 
All the participants at Sports Day at my school got certificates for taking part. One child did ask me why he was being told he was great even though he came last by a mile!!
 
That was my answer to him. We did a show of hands for all who took part and who didn't and I showed him he did better than 70% of my tutor group as even last earned points.
 
When I worked for the oil co. in Saudi, we'd get loads of applications from Indians, mostly for clerical/admin jobs. Under the heading 'qualifications' were, time and time again, "LLB - Failed". :o Well, at least they tried...
 
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