the need to find failure

Students currently in school need to be offered multiple pathways to success — but multiple pathways to failure as well.  All should be required to fail at something as it’s in the best interest of society that they do so. 

For instance, a young man or woman destined for college would benefit from time in the high school shop class, for even if they were a complete and utter Kutz, they would learn respect for others who had demonstrated greater skill. And for those with greater skill, they would have the chance to witness a rise in their own self-esteem, demonstrated before others, thus easing the gulf between.

Instead of always being pushed aside from academic success and feeling a gulf between themselves and their college bound peers, they might find themselves feeling a deeper connection. We all share a common bond in that we all try and then fail at something. It's being human.

In the recent presidential election (and the one before that), there was a measurable gulf between college educated voters and the skilled tradesmen and rural folks voting on the  other side. As in all things, education makes a difference and the decision made to separate high school learning into separate branches can be found as an important factor in making us a fractured society. Let's put things back in their right places through a restoration of hands on learning at all levels of education.

Make, fix and create... Assist others in failing likewise.