Common belief is that if you are wrong or didn’t get the right answer, you can not learn anything. This myth causes our kids to develop a fear of failing, fear of saying the wrong answer, fear of not being right – they often don’t see that making mistakes helps you find the way to be right, and, most importantly, that there is NO learning without making mistakes. That was the lesson my students learned this week. I introduced them to Albert Einstein’s story: when he was a child, his teachers told him, ” No flower will grow from this field.” Can you imagine what would have happened if had listened to them and stopped trying to make “mistakes?” It could have been a great loss for humankind.