With humor and optimism. Ralph Parlette introduces us to our most important and lifelong educational experience— The University of Hard Knocks. We will never graduate, and it is only in this school that we will learn:
- how to receive the blessings of life
- not many people really grow up
- the only way to rule others is to rule yourself
- there is only one greatness—inside greatness. All outside greatness is merely an incidental reflection of the inside.
- the secret of the blind man's sight
- real education is the journey you make, the strength you develop, the service you perform
- to worry is to doubt God
- how to turn work into play and duty into privilege
- the law of compensation is never suspended—you can't get something for nothing
- it takes less wisdom to make money than to intelligently handle it afterwards
- to thank God for parents who believed in the gospel of struggle
93 pages
