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Oh, young student, listen to the masters of age, wisdom, and woe. Put down your books and pick up your soul. Listen to it as you stub your toe and brush up against fame. For it is here in the pain of life where most will find gain.
But remember, good student, do not ignore your master of discontent: experience. For if you do, you are tempting fate. He will show you great things of eternal worth, knowledge that lasts longer than that of mere temporal monetary or material gain. Here, if you listen well, is knowledge tinged with wisdom and understanding, there for your and your posterity's gain. But if you do not learn, like your ancestors, you will brush up against loss and failure again and again without purpose or gain. Insanity and time wasted is of that which is done over and over without adjustment for gain.
But be of good cheer, for your guide is near. If you listen without tongue you will hear in the quieted places, the recesses of your soul, that where most of us desire to have and to hold, great mysteries, stories not untold but forgotten for they were never learned and will soon pass from the soul.
Wait for the teacher. Do not press. Do not force. He is there always waiting, of course, but you must not look to avoid him, yet many do. He is cancer, tornado, famine, and feast, want, and plenty, love, and the stories of the deceased. It is there for the taking, this blessing of wisdom with woe. But remember that as you attempt to avoid it at all cost, your education comes with a stubbing, a stubbing, a stubbing upon stubbing of toes.
But remember most importantly, student, that the teacher is lazy, for he only opens the door. You must enter and lie on the killing floor, a place of danger where traditional education lies at unrest. And it is only in your thrashing about where the learning begins. Don't expect the teacher to work for he only lets you in. He only lets you in. So open the door and begin.
Experience is Life's Education:
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."-- Mark Twain
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."-- Bill Gates
"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose."-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."-- Albert Einstein
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."-- Aldous Huxley
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."-- Oscar Wilde
"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right."-- Marian Wright Edelman
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."-- Vernon Sanders Law
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."-- Richard Bach
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."-- Archibald McLeish
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."-- Confucius
"The reward of suffering is experience."-- Aeschylus
"It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."-- Bill Gates
"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you make it."-- The Associated Press
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."-- Dan Stanford
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."-- Bernard Mannes Baruch
"When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear."-- Native American Saying
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."-- Chinese proverb
"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops."-- Henry Adams
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations."-- Patricia Neal
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."-- Gail Godwin
"The aim of education, should be rather to teach us how to think, than what to think."-- James Beattie
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."-- William Ralph Inge
"Education isn't a result. It's a process."-- Pierce Brosnan
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."-- Albert Einstein
"Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned."-- unknown
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."-- Leonardo da Vinci
"Go to school and let your parents believe in your glorified baby sitters. And once you are done and you've received your diploma, go out back and stick your finger down your throat and purge. Get it out. Get it all out. Leave the nest, for now you are ready to learn." Jeffrey P Brown
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."-- Henry Steele Commager
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."-- William Butler Yates
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."-- Malcolm S. Forbes
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."-- Henry Ford
"A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension."-- Albert Einstein
"We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best."-- Robert Kall
"Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods."-- Neil Postman
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."-- Abraham J. Heschel
Jeff has written 100's of essays and articles;over 50 poems; and several books: Now available are his motivational works Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe at Amazon.com and ToDie at the Age of Man at Lulu.com; Coming soon: Give and Grow Yourself Rich (May, 2008); Education is a Waste of Time, (late 2008); and a children's novella The Search for Adriana (late 2008). Currently, he teaches writing and owns Inner Projection, a self-improvement business.
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