Although critics may argue that failure hinders students’ progress instead of helping, the reality is that teaching kids to struggle benefits them by training them to learn from their mistakes, persevere, and ultimately succeed. People learn more from overcoming obstacles than from not having any challenges at all. To demonstrate, in “Does Teaching Kids to Get ‘Gritty’ Help Them Get Ahead?” NPR ed. remarks that making mistakes is part of the learning process and that even “[Steve Jobs] failed one of the Mac projects he was creating”(13) and “He used his mistakes to help him along his journey”(14). Although he flopped at first, he learned what he needed to tweak and got closer and closer to succeeding after every attempt. Had he not known that…show more content… Teaching kids to struggle and learn from their mistakes is imperative in order for them to succeed in the future. Not only does failure teach kids to learn from their mistakes, learning to accept failure will leave kids with a long-lasting lesson on perseverance. Furthermore, NPR ed. conveys that failure helps train kids to push through their obstacles and “that no matter how talented [students are], they hit the wall, so they can learn to pick themselves up, hit the wall again and pick themselves up again, and ultimately persevere and succeed”(17). Perseverance and determination are characteristics that are helpful in all aspects of life. Kids need to learn these attributes to be able to function and make a change in the real world. Did Martin Luther King Jr. give up on equal rights at the first sign of opposition? Did the Wright brothers throw in the towel after their first failed airplane? There is only one thing that sets successful people apart from other people: perseverance. Everyone will fail at one point—those who keep trying are the ones who succeed. In teaching kids to learn from their mistakes and persevere, failure ultimately gives them the formula for