The joy of nurturing failure…
When a group of children go on stage unprepared, their prop is unset, their wig falls off.
We don’t rescue them.
We make them stay on stage and live the feeling.
We don’t tell them how to fix their mistake, we don’t arrange the prop for them, pin their wig for them next time.
We ask them.
How will you ensure this doesn’t happen again?
And you know what?
It never happens again.
Because they are part of the solution.
The pride they feel the second time they go on stage and the prop is perfect, the wig is held on. They feel such a level of success and fulfillment.
So when we are told we are cruel for ‘allowing them on stage unprepared’…For ‘failing to prepare their prop of quick change for them’.
I can strongly disagree, in knowing the opposite is true.
Actually, their own failure and maybe the slight act of humiliation they feel on stage… will lead them to face the consequences because they will care. They do not want that feeling.
Rehearsals with a few tears and failures; lead to performances full of joy.
Creating sense of true accomplishment for the student.
A true prideful moment for the student.
Because they fixed their own mistake.
That to me is teaching.
'Curioser and Curioser' {Alice} 