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I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
--Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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From the Introduction:
For centuries, philosophers have
contemplated the meaning of Life. One convenient metaphor is that Life
is a school, a never-ending series of lessons in the art of being Human.
By this measure, all learning is worthwhile; the knowledge gained in
the school of "hard knocks" is just as valuable as that gained from
brick-and-mortar institutions.
Of course, we can avoid the "knocks" for
ourselves by choosing to discover the truths revealed in the trials of
others. The core of such self-education is a good dose of classics.
However, even a constant
diet of Great Books is useless if we do not study in a way that helps us
to properly digest their Ideas!
Readers may be divided into four classes:
- Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.
- Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.
- Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.
- Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Getting Started
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by Rachel DeMille
You know, some people hear the principles of Leadership Education (TJEd "tee-jay-ed") articulated just once and think, "Right! That makes perfect sense!"
They are ready to just go for it.
If
this describes you, getting started is pretty simple: Make a list of
your personal classics, and pick one.
You know, the one you've been
waiting for just the right time to read?
Give yourself permission to
make your own education a priority, carry that book around with you, and
get through it--or should I say, get it through you.
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