Many were crushed by the experience of failing the 11-plus, as I almost was.
It is difficult for millionaires to express their opinions in a way that resonates with ordinary people and the experience of failing can be very alienating.
We were told before she arrived that the headteacher had experience of failing schools and was confident of "turning it round".
Here is a story of a white person's burgeoning racial consciousness, drawn powerfully from what is likely a white writer's experience of failing (at least at first) to fully apprehend others' experiences.
"If children start school with inadequate language to meet the social and academic demands of the classroom, behaviour problems may increase through frustration, peer difficulties and experience of failing at academic tasks," the paper states.
At the same time, this experience of failing to purchase this fine piece gave me, among other things, confidence that there might be someone among Japan's wealthy to buy an appropriate item, were it to go up for sale, and faith in such were a possibility.
Early records of Buddhist presence in China depict the arrival of this foreign religion as at once intriguing and unsettling a confrontation with cultural difference, not as an objectively observable fact, but as a subjectively troubling experience of failing common sense (Sakai 1997).
The experience of failing and persisting is credible, believable and appealing.
Even today, I am absorbing the total effect that the experience of "failing" at marriage had on me.
