One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
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MICHAEL LEUNIG Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w... MICHAEL GREGER Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know. MICHAEL EKLUND I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like... MICHAEL SYMON Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into... MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ... MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and... MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w... MICHAEL LEARNED I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the ... MICHAEL FROME I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food. MICHAEL MINA I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th... MICHAEL PORTER The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. MICHAEL GERBER A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ... MICHAEL CARBONARO