Inventor to Schools: 'Let Kids Fail!'

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We've heard the importance of failure and experimentation in learning. In this excellent interview on Science Friday, inventor James Dyson speaks about his direct experience with failures and schools' need to accommodate it.

"My life and my day are full of failures,” he says. “Failures are interesting.”

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