"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
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| Life's School |
Today
let's take a different look at the gift of learning. Life is one big
institution of learning from which there is no graduation. In the school of
life, there is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an
examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you
are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Every single day life
will offer you courses on various subjects that formal institutions will never
teach you e.g, love, marriage, money, anger, forgiveness, family, pain,
pleasure, integrity, and so on.
According
to Benjamin Franklin, "being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being
unwilling to learn". Hence in the school of life "A wise man can
learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise
answer." - Bruce Lee
So it
is not what happened to you in life that matters, it is what you learn from
what happened to you. He, who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks
but does not learn is in even a greater danger. According to Tony Robbins
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of
having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your
life. If you don't, life controls you.
The fun
of it is every lesson learnt is inter-connected. For example a training on anger
management today will save your marriage from collapsing tomorrow. Friedrich
Nietzsche said, "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to
stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
The
School of Experience is a pretty tough institution. And it's a lot tougher when
we fail to learn our lessons. You remember the case of the school principal who
protested to his superintendent because he wasn't given a certain promotion.
"After all," he said, "I've had twenty-five years'
experience." "No, Joe," said the superintendent, "that's
where you are wrong. You have had one year's experience twenty-five
times!" - Sterling W. Sill
Remember
it's the STEPS, not the JUMPS, of a good man that are ordered by God...may we
become wiser, one day at a time.
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