
First lesson: How to fail
“You need to understand that you will fail in this class. You will be frustrated. And fail.” Okay, I thought. My other two course-mates are less accepting. One of them says she is averse to failing. The other says she really likes to succeed at what she does. I say that I’m not only okay with failing but that I have two college certificates confirming my ability to fail. After all, I hold certificates in therapeutic clowning and educational clowning from the College of Educat