“If you don’t have confidence and you don’t have resilience, how on earth are you meant to take the risk to put pen to paper? How on earth are you meant to put your neck on the line and look like a banana in front of everybody else by getting something wrong?”
Elizabeth is a teacher and sees working on “character” as the essential groundwork for academic learning. She continues: “If you don’t take risks, then you will never learn anything.”
From 2012 to 2015 I led a research team at the charity Teach First, visiting schools in the poorest neighbourhoods in the UK.
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