The Courage Curriculum
Academic failure often succeeds where academic success fails: teaching that worth cannot be graded.
The failing student who stays proves something the valedictorian never had to discover—that education is not about being good enough for the system, but about being strong enough to endure when the system declares you insufficient.
Recognition follows two paths: rewarding those who succeeded within the rules, and honouring those who persisted despite them. Both teach, but only one teaches courage.
The greatest testimony comes not from who conquered the system, but from who survived it.