Jin Schofield (9) STAFF REPORTER
“Your best teacher was your last mistake.”
When she lays awake at night, regretting every word she said and step she took…
She is learning.
When she receives back an imperfect grade and bashes her porcelain spirit against the wall for it…
She is learning.
When she is rejected and ridiculed, mocked and scorned, her self-esteem shredded into slivers of shattered pride…
She is learning.
The learning builds up. Each droplet of lesson and sprinkle of mistake forms a pool that is her new self.
Find the lesson in every book. The knowledge in every mistake. The experience in every person.
Collect them like pennies in a piggy bank.
And save up.
