Mistakes

I read The Times and I saw a short “me and my spoons” about erasers. Apparently erasers are ill-thought of by what Michael Gove used to refer to as “The Blob” (that is, the left-wing educational establishment) because they perpetuate a culture of shame of making mistakes. 

Of course, we all make mistakes; everybody fails, and that is fine. “I’m not OK – You’re not OK: But hey, that’s OK”. But we should try to encourage and teach young people to NOT make mistakes.

But mistakes can matter. Mistakes are costly. Mistakes can cost lives. In these piping days of peace, mistakes don’t really seem to matter, but a time will come when the peace is over and mistakes are once more life-threatening. Don’t make mistakes!!