A Mistake Is A Future

A Significant Inventionmust Be Startling, Unexpected. It Must Come To A World That Is Not Prepared For It.

A Mistake Is An Event, The Full Benefit Of Which Has Not Yet Been Turned To Your Advantage.

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I Say That Our System Of Tests And Grades, As It Now Exists, Is One Source Of The Low Yield Of Great Men From Our Universities. The Marking System Is A Traumatic Experience From Which Most Students Emerge With A Deep Determination Never To Get Into A Situation Where They Can Be Marked Again. They Just Won't Ever Again Take A Chance.

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