Practice Essay: Edison and the Moth.
"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginnening of education." - Jon Hersey. To support your view, use an example or examples from history, literature, the arts, current events, politics, science and technology, or your experience or observation.
Failure strengthens the developing minds of young students, who yearn for recognition, distinction, and achievement. Struggle and exertion are indispensable to achieving anything in Life, a Journey that constitutes failures and successes; loss and victory; adversity and glory. A student needs to experience the distress of failure in order to earnestly taste the glory of success. Thus, Jon Hersey rightfully asserts that failure is crucial for learning to take place.
Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbon filament of an incandescent Light Bulb. When asked about it, he said, “I didn’t fail. I just found 2000 ways of how not to make a Light Bulb, but had to find that one way to make it work.” Failure points us to the direction that leads to the correct solution and the satisfaction got from achieving our goal can only be truly felt after the trepidation got from a debacle. Success and Failure unify to give an inevitable conglomerate at all times, irrespective of the task at hand.
Beginning of Education is the start of a struggle, a struggle for learning, to stay ahead, to achieve distinction and success in life. Learning requires continuous efforts from the students to renew their knowledge, in order to prevent it from getting lost; just like it is continuously required to clean the sand off the marble statue set in a desert, to prevent it from getting covered up by the ever-flowing sand. This struggle, with its inevitable failures, fortifies our soul for what lies ahead. We understand our weaknesses and work upon them till we reach our ultimate goal. After experiencing failures, we realize that it is crucial to be prudent and vigilant at all times, and never take anything for granted.
Speaking of the necessity of struggle in life makes me recount the phase when a Moth struggles inside the cocoon. A tiny hole at the top of the cocoon is all the space it has got to get out through. If any external agency helps it by cutting open the cocoon, although the Moth will be free, it will soon die, for it would not be strong enough to survive by then. Struggle is Nature’s way of strengthening, and the failures involved are crucial and obligatory to survive.
-| AG, 20/04/2006
Failure strengthens the developing minds of young students, who yearn for recognition, distinction, and achievement. Struggle and exertion are indispensable to achieving anything in Life, a Journey that constitutes failures and successes; loss and victory; adversity and glory. A student needs to experience the distress of failure in order to earnestly taste the glory of success. Thus, Jon Hersey rightfully asserts that failure is crucial for learning to take place.
Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbon filament of an incandescent Light Bulb. When asked about it, he said, “I didn’t fail. I just found 2000 ways of how not to make a Light Bulb, but had to find that one way to make it work.” Failure points us to the direction that leads to the correct solution and the satisfaction got from achieving our goal can only be truly felt after the trepidation got from a debacle. Success and Failure unify to give an inevitable conglomerate at all times, irrespective of the task at hand.
Beginning of Education is the start of a struggle, a struggle for learning, to stay ahead, to achieve distinction and success in life. Learning requires continuous efforts from the students to renew their knowledge, in order to prevent it from getting lost; just like it is continuously required to clean the sand off the marble statue set in a desert, to prevent it from getting covered up by the ever-flowing sand. This struggle, with its inevitable failures, fortifies our soul for what lies ahead. We understand our weaknesses and work upon them till we reach our ultimate goal. After experiencing failures, we realize that it is crucial to be prudent and vigilant at all times, and never take anything for granted.
Speaking of the necessity of struggle in life makes me recount the phase when a Moth struggles inside the cocoon. A tiny hole at the top of the cocoon is all the space it has got to get out through. If any external agency helps it by cutting open the cocoon, although the Moth will be free, it will soon die, for it would not be strong enough to survive by then. Struggle is Nature’s way of strengthening, and the failures involved are crucial and obligatory to survive.
-| AG, 20/04/2006
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