Sunday, October 11, 2009

Super Sunday


When I stop to think about it, every Sunday is "Super" here in the U.S.A.! And for the most part, all around the world.

Tonight there is only time to finish up the quotations after the super Sunday nap I had after dinner.


Quotable and the Not-so-quotable Quotes

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~Mark Twain

How true! Some of the things we have learned in school are truly an inhibition to further education. Take the age old friction between academia and experience, for instance. How many of our quotations reflect this?

"Experience keeps a mean school; fools will learn in no other!" ~Unknown. (I heard this one a lot while growing up.) Demeaning to say the least.

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." ~Pete Seeger

I would say if one does not know the difference between education and experience he is quite lacking in one or the other. ~RR

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896

Our inventors and early scientists were not uneducated men. Yet through experimentation (trial and error and sometimes many failures) experience became the educator.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." ~Rita Mae Brown

There are ups and downs from learning by experience, no one can deny that.

"Experience is what you got by not having it when you needed it." ~Author Unknown

Humorous, but sometimes there was not enough experience to make the right choice. The same could be said of academic study. There are some things that just aren't taught in books, and much of what is does not prepare one for life. The best things taught in the classroom are good methods of problem solving, and where to look for the answer if you cannot find it by any of those methods. Experience is a slow teacher in those areas of learning.

"If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon." ~Doug Rader

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." ~Auguste Rodin

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." ~Soren Kierkegaard

My Dutch grandmother told me the Dutch always do things backwards. Fortunately I have only one Dutch grandparent or I might have been named Benjamin Button. Now back to Samuel Clements for a final quote.

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." ~Mark Twain



The Friday Puzzle Hint

Progressing from left to right, select 32 letters to remain in the same order and form a complete seven word sentence. Use the list only one time through.
CLUE: No two of the correct letters will be found adjacent to each other below:

Another clue tomorrow. Answer Friday.

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