Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 01, 2015
Transcript:
Mr. Burke: Your assignment: A paper on the perils of perfectionism. Careless mistakes will, of course, lower your score by a point. But risk-taking mistakes will raise your score by two points. Mistakes you make twice cost you four points. Ones you correct and learn from earn you five. Successes you build on count double, success you coast on is a penalty factor of 1.5. Got that? Children: NO! Frazz: It does sound a little bit flawed. Mr. Burke: I like to teach by example.
phaze58 about 9 years ago
nosirrom about 9 years ago
I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes.It keeps getting easier and easier to make the same ones.
GoodGollieMizMollie about 9 years ago
You can’t achieve perfection until you’ve mastered the gentle art of complexity. Umm . . . what? Hmmm.
davidh48 about 9 years ago
Elegant.
Doublejake Premium Member about 9 years ago
“Stupid does not learn, the intelligent do learn from their mistakes”.I might refine that a bit — the stupid may not learn from their mistakes, the normal do learn from their mistakes, the more intelligent learn from the mistakes of others without having to experience the consequences personally..I’ve never had a car accident, but I always wear my seat belt.
Varnes about 9 years ago
“Why don’t we just get in the running car?,…”
MurphyHerself about 9 years ago
Is this somehow related to common core math?