Can Failure Leads For Success? ' Praise Of The F Word By Mary Sherry

Grades tend to be more hurtful than anything. They have negative effects on students and how they learn. Cheating can become a series problem even with students who normally wouldn’t cheat. “Researchers have found that the more students are

When I look at the word failure I didn’t see success. But that slowly changed as I read the book What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain Chapter four. Bain, for me and I’m sure many other, have changed our view point on failure being a bad thing. He instead expressed failure as an “opportunity to learn something.” (121) As infants we grow and develop, we learn to walk by falling down a couple hundred times, and we learn to speak by babbling. By trying to walk, and trying to talk, we may fail at first. As an infant, you cannot give up when you are face to face with failure. You must get up and try again to learn. In the book, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain he uses people’s experiences and research to explain why failure is an opportunity to learn something new, rather than seeing failure as something bad. He asserts “people who become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge failures, even to embrace them, and to explore and learn from them.” (100) Failure is important. If we did not get up and try again as infants, we would not be where we are today.

The title of the article is In Praise Of The F Word, which I think it’s referring to the word failure ,failure of our education system to teach the children basic skills and letting them graduate without having the capabilities of a graduate should have . The “F” word does not increase the effectiveness of the article because these type of informative article usually require the writer to tell the facts to the readers, although the word failure is stated many times in the article but not everyone has the same intellectual level to understand the phases. The writer of the article “In Praise Of The F Word” is Mary Sherry. Mary Sherry is the mother of three and grandmother of four resides in Burnsville, Minnesota. She has written numerous articles on general subjects and on spirituality in America, Newsweek, St. Anthony Messenger, Newsday, Catholic Digest, The Wall Street Journal and Liguorian. She teaches English grammar at night to adult students who dropped out of high school or who graduated without learning how to read and write well enough to keep a job. Her own son, when he was a senior in high school, nearly flunked English until his teacher threatened him with failure and he turned his semester around.

“ In praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry, the author has her point that flunking students is a way that can help students do better in school. Flunking students can be helpful in getting them motivated and lead to success in their education. Students who don’t want to put in effort because they are lazy, a troublemaker, or good student that gets just passed along to next grade deserve to fail. Is it not going to be easy for students to be successful in their education. The students need to try hard to get to their goals. The students have to pass through failure to have the motivation to do better in school. If more students go through the teacher’s threats of failing, the students will want to put in the effort to able

Mary Sherry is the author of an article called “In Praise of The F Word”. Before I get into the article there are a couple things to know about Mary. She teaches an adult literacy program, and is a writer who owns her own publishing company. The subjects she teaches in her program are basic grammar, and writing. In her classes she has adults that have either graduated or have not graduated and need to learn skills that they should have learned in high school. This reading will open a door to a different side of the educational system.

Mary Sherry, who is both a mother and a teacher, shares from her life experience, a revealing reality in the educational system. She goes on to share how this experience has impacted her view of how students can be better motivated to learn. The title of the piece, "In Praise of the F Word", is a great title that catches the readers' attention and leads to a final revelation that leaves the reader both disturbed and in the case of this reader, delighted that there are teachers who recognize the shortfall of an education that moves students through the system without insuring that students have actually learned the skills that were taught.

In “In Praise of the F Word” Mary Sherry focuses not on how the difficulties that the students have to face affect their performance in school, but how the “fear of failure” compels them to work. Sherry believes that diplomas are meaningless; because most passing students did not master the work. Additionally, some high school graduates told her that they do not even know how they get the diplomas. She believes that the fluning policy is “an expression of confidence by both parents and teachers” (Sherry 560).And we should give the students the choice to be success or fail. Sherry falsely assumes that flunking a student will make the students perform better at school.

With this statement, comes the idea that the educational system has cheated these students. Sherry quotes some of her students that she has had in her adult-literacy programs concerning their wishes that someone would have made them work hard during high school. The author then provides an example of the time a teacher made her own son work by threatening to flunk him. She makes sure to address that students can rise above their own problems if they are pushed with the threat of failure. Sherry concludes that the threat of flunking should be used regularly as a positive teaching tool to both, push students and prevent those from moving on when they are not

In Mary Sherry’s essay “The Praise in the “F” Word” she discusses a technique that should be used to motivate students to do better in school. Sherry argues that the threat of failure motivates a student to apply themselves in school in order to succeed. Students who have a healthy fear of failure tend to be motivated to do better because something they desire is a risk. Many high school teachers have also awarded students with a passing grade although they actually deserved a failing grade simply because of pity. The fear of failure is the best tool to use on students in order to help them succeed and to push them for a brighter future.

Flunking a student does not always motivate them into doing better academically in school. Passing a student on when they do not know the material can hurt them but threatening them with failure can hurt them mentally. In high school there was always that one kid that acted like he or she could care less about school but when they would ask for help the teacher would tell them they

Mary Sherry has many good points in her essay ‘’In praise of the F word’’ that shows schools should fail students because student learn at different paces and troubled youth need more support not failure. However, his or her students learn by working along in their own paced by getting the assignment done and they have good quality skills, they learn quick then others. Obviously the youth don’t have their parents involved which it make it hard for them which they can’t afford the materials for school, and don’t have the support that they need for school which can put them behind of not learning and cause them to fail . Mary Sherry thoughts about why students should fail classes because she know that his or her student are not giving their full effort in school which the teacher would just let them passed to the next grade. And they have students who didn’t applied themselves by basic off not learning anything when the teacher going over the assignment or not fully understand it.

While failing students may work for a portion of them, that does not mean it will works for all. In the article “In Praise of The F Word”, Michelle Sherry, a teacher and published author references the positives of failing students. One flaw she made was ignoring the negatives of failing students. In this upcoming quote, Sherry argues that failing students motivates and helps students rise above their classroom behaviors. She also argues that the only way to get students to work hard is to throw “the trump card of failure” at them. Sherry “most kids don't put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at stake.” In simpler terms, she’s assuming that students are not at their best unless threatened by the “F” word which is

Does Failure Lead to Success? In the article “In Praise of the F Word” by Marry Sherry,Sherry argues for the need to be able to fail students. Sherry argues for the threat of failure as a means of motivation for students. A controversial issue of “In Praise of the F Word” has been flunking students.

When asking a student do they think cheating is bad most will say yes and will even admit to cheating.Cheating doesn’t affect many students on a regular day basis until they have been caught red-handed.When it comes to cheating blame automatically goes to the student but what about the adult as well.Some teachers have admitted to seeing student cheat but haven't said anything because it was on homework.Some teachers have even gone to the depth of helping a student cheat on a test.There was a survey that was taken through all of the high schools asking students if they had ever cheated on a test, the results were that there were 64 percent who cheated,58 who plagiarised, and above all 95 percent of them admitted to cheating of some sort.(Academic Integrity Under Statistics paragraph 3 )Students cheat to make it through a semester and to make their parents proud.Students cheat simply because of lack of knowledge, pressure from the adult looking for them to do their best, and last lack of time.

Second, people cheat on tests in school. They may not realize at the time that by doing this, they are cheating themselves out of their own education. Is the passing grade what is really important, or is it the knowledge they have deprived themselves of? Cheating does not increase their knowledge or make them a better person. What they don't realize is that once they enter their career they won't have the knowledge they need to do their work successfully.