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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

What's the meaning?

of beaten into in the following?

""Failure = bad" is beaten into us through schooling from a young age and it is
absolutely the wrong way to go through life."

Thanks a million!
  

Top answer

It means that your parents and teachers told you many times and in many different ways that if you fail you are a bad person. You were probably punished for not getting perfect scores, and rewarded for your achievements. We say "it was drilled into you" as well.

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  • It means that your parents and teachers told you many times and in many different ways that if you fail you are a bad person.
  • You were probably punished for not getting perfect scores, and rewarded for your achievements.
  • We say "it was drilled into you" as well.
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It means that your parents and teachers told you many times and in many different ways that if you fail you are a bad person. You were probably punished for not getting perfect scores, and rewarded for your achievements.

We say "it was drilled into you" as well.
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Jin_Hand it is
absolutely the wrong way to go through life."
And we shouldn't be afraid of failure because often we learn more from our failures than from our successes.

CJ
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