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“Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new. Before there can be learning, there must be learners. ”

Daniel C. Dennett. “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.”

He's mostly talking about affordable mistakes, i.e. the kind of mistakes that allow the learner to live through them.