In primary school, we were taught this rhyme - "If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.

then your courage should appear, try again…" The lesson in this popular rhyme is that it is through failure that we gain experience.

And if eventually we succeed, the evidence is there for all to see.

I guess President Akufo-Addo, with whom I am generations apart in terms of age, had similar lessons along the line of his educational journey.