Learning is beautiful

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers the Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association in 2008. Her speech is amazing. She goes back to her early years when she was poor, jobless and an alone parent. And she talks about failure, and what a life-worth lesson failing can teach you. The speech is worth listening to, so go ahead and press the play button.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Tags: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, TED

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 6:02 pm and is filed under English. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.