Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 01, 2015
February 28, 2015
March 02, 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 over 9 years ago
nosirrom over 9 years ago
I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes.It keeps getting easier and easier to make the same ones.
GoodGollieMizMollie over 9 years ago
You can’t achieve perfection until you’ve mastered the gentle art of complexity. Umm . . . what? Hmmm.
davidh48 over 9 years ago
Elegant.
Doublejake over 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 over 9 years ago
“Why don’t we just get in the running car?,…”
MurphyHerself over 9 years ago
Is this somehow related to common core math?
DKHenderson 2 days ago
In the book PATH OF THE ECLIPSE, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, there was an interesting statement: “A stupid man cannot learn, an ignorant man has not had the opportunity to learn, but a foolish man can learn, has the opportunity, but does not do it.”