Is there a fear of failure in education

I have found this article by Kerry Eustice on the Guardian website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/nov/23/failure-in-education

I found it really interesting...I am aware that I want my personal view point that - dance in education is an important attribute to the education system to appear well researched and more importantly fair.  This piece of literature enables me to give a non-biased viewpoint at which to entertain the education system as a whole, rather then pin pointing one particular subject.