Experience is simply the name which we elders, senior citizens have given for our mistakes. But when it comes about children we define their character. They are ever ready to pass comments that “You are a loser who always makes a mistake, So many mistakes in writing, Oh! You made a mistake in multiplying, This diagram is wrong, a big mistake, You got less in subjects but drawing you secured A+ a non-correctable mistake”. Oh! Gosh, MISTAKE MISTAKE MISTAKE. 

Let's have a full stop, Yes I am a teacher who tries to see the good qualities and hard work of a child in their performance or report cards. So that the children feel that they have not made a mistake in handwriting but a new format of writing, not a mistake in drawing but a new technique of looking the image as 2D or 3D image and may not be fed up with this education but feel that education is a passport of their future or realise that it is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. If now we don’t make them realise the importance of education negative thoughts may arise in their minds. We should prove that negative thoughts will hold them back, weigh them down, and drain their energy. In fact we should be firm by repeating that Positive thoughts will give them more ENERGY, LIFT them up, And set them FREE. So Choose wisely.

I remembered a famous thought by Alexander Pope the English poet wrote “ To err is human, to forgive is divine. This saying has given for me the best advice that I as a teacher received ever. I tell my students to Make Their mistakes, a mistake Plus.

A mistake is an error or fault resulting from poor judgment. If you think positively, your mind will motivate you to try to find out where you went wrong. This kind of rethinking will open up new possibilities for you. Thus this will make children learn that in an indirect way, the mistake will become a means to climb to new heights of success in life. 

The condition for turning mistakes into correctness is that one should not take mistakes to be a full stop. Rather one should consider mistakes as a comma. If one makes a mistake ten times then one should put a comma at each instance. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who is not even trying to correct their mistakes.

Mistakes don’t define your character. It's what you choose to do after you have made the mistake that makes all the difference. A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant. We have to realise that in the world the quantum of mistakes is limited but the quantum of achievements is unlimited. No mistake can close the door to your achievement, provided you are able to keep your thinking positive. This piece of advice may change the attitude of people and realisation in children’s thinking ability. 

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