> Failure is not bad but first children need successes.  After a few
> failures and no successes, one stops trying

If given no attention and encouragement. If you accept that teaching
is done only within schools, and not in the home too. But not every
parent is a teacher of course

> You can be sure that when Van Gogh brought his pictures home
> from school, his mother stuck them on the refrigerator and gave
> him praise

Fridge magnets and the fridge having been invented by da Vinci
for just those occassions

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