An example in support of my statements in the prior post:

[www.timesonline.co.uk]

"A RETIRED primary school teacher has called for the word “failure” to be banned from the classroom and replaced with “deferred success”.
Liz Beattie, who taught for 37 years, said that children’s aspirations to learn are crushed as soon as they are deemed failures and that they should be praised instead.
The motion to remove the word “fail” from the educational vocabulary will be put formally to members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) at the union’s annual conference in Buxton, Derbyshire, at the end of the month. "

Now if I can just convnice my boss that I have never "failed" in any assigned task, but that I've in fact acheived "deferred success" and deserve a raise!

Peski
"Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of something is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel." - Homer Simpson