BBC – Staff Writer
“High-achieving, “gilded” young people who had an easy time at school need to understand what it is like to fail, says the former head of Eton. Tony Little said clever children who never had difficulties needed to have the resilience for struggles of adult life. He said schools should help young people learn from the “experience of failure”. Mr Little said children needed to find out how to “bounce back”. Speaking at the Global Education and Skills Forum about young people’s well-being, he said he was concerned by pupils leaving school who had never seemed to have struggled.”(more)