A short monologue (YouTube) by Hannah Hammond arguing that schools discourage learning by punishing mistakes and labeling cooperation as cheating. The speaker uses personal anecdote (sitting next to a smart classmate) and general claims (teachers/ schools fear mistakes) to argue that current schooling habits inhibit success and learning-by-failing.
Chapters
If you want to be rich and happy, don't go to school because schools teach you things to be not successful. And the biggest one is they punish you for making mistakes. Well, a baby cannot learn to walk unless a baby falls down. We can't ride a bicycle without falling off. And most school teachers are poor because they're afraid of making mistakes. Yeah, I'm not really religious, but it seems to me that God created us to learn by making mistakes. But our schools punish you for making mistakes. The second big mistake schools do is if you cooperate. It's called cheating. And when I was in school, I was sat next to the smartest girl in the class. I could get the answers off her test. You know, so the teacher says, you're cheating. And I said, I'm cooperating. I love that. But it's just different points of view, different people.