The trouble with plans, goals, objectives or whatever we call them, is that they can limit our thinking. We are all different and, just because we don’t get something at a particular time, it doesn’t mean that we are incapable of ever doing so.
I once attended a conference where Susan Greenfield, the Oxford professor whose red Doc Martins are etched in my mind, fascinated us with evidence of how plastic the brain is; how it can change itself as it receives external stimuli.
Children, in particular, have no idea what their limits are. As their teacher, you have the privileged opportunity to set the bar wherever you like; to remove the limits of your own expectations, and theirs.
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