[cwb]

The teacher would need to try and make the students understand that it is all right -- scrap that, necessary -- to fail when you learn. Learning to perform surgery is not the same thing as performing it.

Out of curiosity, how do you think it would affect your motivation to practice in private if you knew you would be tested in public?

[GHFigs]

The irony is that most students had to be taught to abhor such failure in the first place.