Question

Think carefully about the following two quotations and the assignment below:

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

~ H. G. Bohn

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Assessment: What is your view on the idea that it is important to make and learn from mistakes? Plan an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasons and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience or observations.