Finding Mistakes & Clapping Respectfully
“I found the mistake! Do you see it? Everybody clap…respectfully!” Ernest C. Bairstow, the sculptor who carved “euture” instead of “future” on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial, wasn’t there to hear it, but I like to think that he would have appreciated the moment on Wednesday night when an eighth-grade student exhorted her classmates to applaud his error. You see, while it is not (yet) etched into our classroom wall, we do have a poster reminding Bikkurim students that “mistakes are proof...