"When I was in college,
I graduated in the half of the class
that made the upper half possible"
- Author unknown

Sometimes teachers kill children's desire to study a subject at a young age.

People fail for many reasons. They may include some of the following: Jealousy of others. If a person is too good, then the employer or the teacher may fail the person out of jealousy or fear that the person might remove, lower, or degrade the teacher or the employer. It can occur in any institution, foundation, company, or social group or encounter. People cause others to fail so that they can maintain their own status.

In other cases, a student worker could not fulfill a task because the teacher did not raise the person to the level that was needed, or because he forgot or ignored certain aspects, or did not know how to handle them. That teacher may fail the person to cover up for a problem which was created.

In other words, there are situations when the person who fails is merely a victim of the situation and circumstances. After all, the person who gives a grade or teaches, or a superior authority in an institution can control many situations.

In such cases, there are always ways of explaining the failure. After all, the person who needs to study or to learn really did not meet these expectations and that person does have to improve.

However, here we get into issues of fault and blame.

Of course, the failure is the child's fault in most cases.