Even Higher Education
When you learned how to feed yourself, you probably put the food in your ear or in your nose a few times before you started putting it in your mouth,” offers Peter Kilpatrick, Illinois Tech’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, in a tone both comforting and paternal. “So, don’t be afraid to fail because if you are afraid to fail and that prevents you from doing something, you’ll never do anything worthwhile in your life.”