What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

Randolph wants his students to succeed, of course — it’s just that he believes that in order to do so, they first need to learn how to fail.

Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster.

Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a 104-year-old campus that looks down grandly on Van Cortlandt Park from the top of a steep hill in the richest part of the Bronx. On the discussion boards of http://www.UrbanBaby.com, worked-up moms from the Upper East Side argue over whether Riverdale sends enough seniors to Harvard, Yale and Princeton to be considered truly "TT" (top-tier, in UrbanBabyese), or whether it is more accurately labeled "2T" (second-tier), but it is, certainly, part of the city’s private-school elite, a place members of the establishment send their kids to learn to be members of the establishment. Tuition starts at $38,500 a year, and that’s for prekindergarten.

By PAUL TOUGH

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB

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