Fearless Learners, Fearful Schools..."we have to give our students the tools and the skills to find relevant information and use it well on their own. That we need to teach them to literally revel in the learning process and the collaborative, social construction of knowledge that it creates."
I posted an article by a colleague several years ago relating to this subject: Learning With Confidence:
Encouraging Risk and Failure in Learning. Learning as a life process (instead of an isolated task or walled-in activity) requires an exploratory mindset. Learning as a journey is a more accurate metaphor than the implied notion in many schools of learning as content-filling.