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Students brought up to demonstrate human fallibility (4,2)

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I believe the answer is:

slip up

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'demonstrate human fallibility' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'students brought up' is the wordplay.
'students' becomes 'pupils' ('pupil' can be a synonym of 'student').
'brought up' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters go up).
'pupils' in reverse letter order is 'SLIP-UP'.

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for slip up that I've seen before include "Make a mistake or lose footing aloft" , "Small error" , "Make a mistake, being unsteady on feet?" , "Minor inadvertent mistake" , "Mistake, blunder" .)

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