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Ebury Press, Australia, 2016. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. I want to tell you a story about my daughter, my beautiful failure. Every day of her high school life was a struggle. She woke up in the morning and the thought of going to school was like an enormous mountain to climb. 'Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years,' well-meaning adults told her, but I knew for my daughter, and for many kids who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this was dead wrong. When Lucy Clark's daughter graduated from school a 'failure', she started asking questions about the way we measure success. Why is there so much pressure on kids today? Where does it come from? Most importantly, as we seem to be in the grip of an epidemic of anxiety, how can we reduce that pressure? Beautiful Failures explores, through personal experience and journalistic investigation, a broken education system that fails too many kids and puts terrible pressure on all kids,…
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- Title Beautiful Failures
- Author Lucy Clark
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- Edition Unabridged
- Pages 320
- Publisher RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9780857989253
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Beautiful Failures: How The Quest for Success is Harming Our Kids
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