Is failure the best teacher?

Question

mistakes can be considered as failure

Answer 1

Experience, good or bad, is the best teacher. Failure sometimes teaches us things that success cannot, and vice versa.

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
--Mullah Nasrudin

Answer 2

Not necessarily. Success can be a good teacher, too, because you may develop skills you never knew you had. As the saying goes, "Success breeds success". People can certainly learn from failure, but it isn't necessary to fail.
Of course, making mistakes is part of any learning process, but it isn't failure as long as you're trying.

Answer 3

Technically, mistakes are a form of failure. You failed to do something right, thus resulting in a mistake. But yes, mistakes are one of the best ways of learning things. Not highly recommended, though.

Answer 4

Failure is the best teacher b/c you can learn from the failures you have been through.

Answer 5

making mistakes is a good way to learn

failure is never a good teacher

Answer 6

Failure is the only thing that will allow a student to then achieve. It is a motivator, if used correctly by a competent teacher.

Answer 7

No, making mistakes is, because you learn not to do it again. In most common people. It's as if your doing something and lets say you got burned, and you just learned not to do it again, from your mistake.

Answer 8

There is no failure if you gain from the experience

Answer 9

No, sometimes it's unavoidable. When you strive and struggle with all your being, and outer influences cause adverse outcomes then you have no control over the results.

Answer 10

Yes, it is because it just is, you learn from your mistakes.