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It is important for students to understand that failures are part of the learning process and that a failure is not something negative. Thomas Hoerr explains in his article “Good Failures” that schools sometimes try to shield students from making mistakes, but he writes, “The starting point is recognizing that children cannot learn how to respond to adversity without experiencing it” (84). With this in mind it is important for teachers to give students an opportunity to make mistakes, recognize those mistakes, and then learn how to ‘fix’ that mistake.