The University of Hard Knocks
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The University of Hard Knocks by Ralph Albert Parlette describes education through personal overcoming and calls its school a place whose books are bumps. The introductory speaker calls the work more a confession than a lecture and explains the repeated reference to the person confessing. The speaker expresses belief in goodness within people and describes pride, vanity, selfishness, self-righteousness and hypocrisy as an outside layer to be chipped away.
The discussion compares people entering the world to unfinished fiddles with bodies and necks but without strings or bows. The comparison urges continued schooling to supply the full complement of strings needed for life's symphonies.
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- Author
- Ralph Albert Parlette
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 109
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Philosophy
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