Educational Leadership by Dorian

Educational Leadership by Dorian - July 2019 Scholarship Essay

To society, failure and leadership have completely juxtaposed connotations but, I believe leadership is based on the premise of failure. Everyone who achieved their alleged “success” failed to realize potential improvements initially. People who manifest into leaders attempt to rectify the problems of humanity, but ultimately fail first, to shine a light on progress. In every aspect of innovation, success is a myth because of the constant failure to see greater modifications for a prototype. Failure is a necessity for the manifestation of leadership.

Throughout my adolescence, I seek to amplify my educational opportunities by applying to scholarships, educational institutions, and internships. Some of my applications were denied by formal congregations. For a while, I believed I wasn’t “good enough” or I failed to express my thoughts effectively. However, it became apparent that my attempts to expand my horizons were parallel to the leaders across the globe, the ability to admit my imperfection and possess the cognitive strength to strive for my ambitions incessantly. I shared this credo with my student John who originally acquiesced to the negative stigma of failure by not achieving the “success” that derived from societal conventions. John was an aspiring student who sought for academic excellence at the Wayne State University Math Corps, and as his Teacher’s Assistant (TA), my anticipation was to proliferate his determination more than his academic sensibility. He approached me with a test that he “perfected” by obtaining a 100%. Ironically, I told him that "he failed" because he could have finished earlier as a form of satire that was distinctive to our relationship. The centrality of this assertion was to inspire John to never believe in success but to strive for improvement. This mentality surfaced John’s outlook, he now attends school to surpass simplicity and to find the seeds of knowledge and germinate into profound intellectualism.

A leader is a failure, a leader is imperfect, but a leader is always original and knows that normality and success are false, while individuality and failure are pure. Society states “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among the stars,” but I say, “The moon is nothing compared to the universe at your grasp.”