That was a close call! I barely made it through midterms! Good thing I read that last post on how to survive the stresses of midterm and final season!  [The jury came back, and they were unable to come up with a verdict.] Don’t worry my loyal readers; I have a really amazing quote for you that I know you will enjoy.  Here we go!

             For those of you who know me, you know that I have always been school driven.  You also know how big of a nerd I am.  My favorite thing is to be in school and expand my knowledge and understand how everything works.  My love for school prompted my Dad to tell me something that has changed how I see schooling. He said, “Education is what you have left after you subtract what you have forgotten from what you have learned”.  I have learned that there is a difference between what you “learn” and what an “education” actually is.  When you are in a classroom, you “learn” new things, but what you take away from that lesson is your “education”.

My Dad is a very smart man. He has worked hard at his job for 30 years, and he still says that he learns new things.  After my Dad said this to me, I found myself analyzing all of the lessons and all of the material that I “learned”.  If you are a little confused by the quote, here is an example to help you. Think about both World War I and World War II.  What you “learn” is how everyone thought that WWI was going to be “the war to end all wars”, but of course it wasn’t. World War II started and that just led to the start of The Cold War, which lasted 46 years!  The “education” of this example would be that our generation can see the mistakes that the Government had made and we can make sure that it doesn’t happen again.  You have the power to use your education and change the world for the better.

That is it for now folks! I have to go and use my education for the better.  The next time you finish a class, ask yourself, “What can I take away from this?”  On that note, I leave you to ponder the quote and to go off and change the world one lesson at a time.

 

Until the next time…Rammy Liv signing off,
“Goodnight and good luck.”