Every culture has a shared story that informs their beliefs about the future.
As Alex Danco so brilliantly points out, in Silicon Valley there is a shared story about the meaning of failure. Namely that it is good, and a regular part of starting new companies.
Conveniently this story implies that failure is not concerning. It’s natural.
In another reality, you could imagine a different group of people having the opposite story about the same event.
Consider people who care about new models of education, and how their attitudes may lean towards that of silicon valley, while most people would be on the opposite side of the spectrum. If you’re a governor, or superintendent or parent and the school that just launched fails within five years, that is not regular. That is bad. That is disruptive to a child’s development. That is a negative mark on the administration and the staff that worked in a failing school.
It’s no wonder we don’t see much change in the education ecosystem. The common story is to avoid failure at all costs because it’s a reason to be concerned. Rather than believing that failure is part of the process and good things come after failure.