It is irony and let us be frank by provocation that we wanted to demolish the myth of dunce as someone stupid.
However, we firmly believe that it is not because we are not academically educated that we are a dunce.
From Wikipedia sources, a dunce is a person considered incapable of learning. The word is derived from the name of the Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, also referred to as Doctor Subtillis, or “Subtle Doctor”, whose works on logic, theology, and philosophy were accepted textbooks in the universities from the fourteenth century.
The followers of Duns Scotus were called the Dunses, Dunsmen, or Scotists. When in the sixteenth century the Scotists argued against Renaissance humanism, the term duns or dunce became, in the mouths of the Protestants, a term of abuse and a synonym for one incapable of scholarship.
Dunces are often comedically shown wearing paper cone hats, known as dunce caps with the word “dunce” or “dumb”, or simply a capitalized “D” on them. Schoolchildren were sometimes compelled to wear a dunce cap and to sit on a stool in the corner as a form of humiliating punishment for misbehaving or for failing to demonstrate that they had properly performed their studies.
That is why our institute in a totally anti-conformist spirit privileges its access to all those who are convinced that being outside the academic path is not an obstacle in itself to achieve being a talented person.
Join our institute whose link you will find at the end of the book. We welcome all those for whom believe that school failure is a stepping stone for a successful life. The John Duns Scotus institute will accompany you, reorient and train you after a school or university failure until the completion of your own life project.
Through a series of online courses you will be accompanied, guided and advised to build your life project until completion, we will prove that failure whatever it is, is a tremendous springboard to achieve a successful project.
You can make your own plan and materialize it in a few months with our assistance until the issuance of your certificate of completion.
Excellence in traditional education is not always the most important thing, we coined the quote; “Life does not stop at a school or university failure, or any form of failure for that matter; on the contrary, it is for many where life really begins.”
Since then, we had made it something of a mission to show others the way to success, through methods which do not involve passing exams at school.
To mark the launch of our website we offer a free guide and also publish the first book of a series whose title is: Academic Failure?
