Some thing to think about.


It’s a question that has been debated down the ages, one that often has no concrete answer but which has been argued well and hard nevertheless – do we need book knowledge or is practical experience enough to taste and enjoy continued success in life? If book knowledge is all that is needed, why do we need experience to secure a job? And if experience is all that matters, why go to college at all?

The truth is that there are advantages to both book learning and experience, and life is a success only when you’re able to find the right mix of both these vital ingredients. The combination depends on the kind of person you are and the career you choose to enter.

Books vs experience…

Book learning is advantageous when:

• You need to prove what you know, through an exam or a series of tests.
• You have to continue to improve and augment your knowledge.
• You need new facts and information on subjects that are constantly changing and where knowledge is being updated continuously.

Practical experience comes in handy:

• When you need to do the same things over and over again at your job or elsewhere.
• When you need to understand the theory behind the concept.
• When you need to become an expert at what you do
• When you need to remember what you have read or learned – when you read a recipe from a cookbook, you tend to forget it soon unless you’ve actually prepared the dish a few times. The experience is embedded in your memory and your brain works automatically after the first few times.
• When you want to learn things on your own. It’s easy to become an expert if you keep trying out what you want to do. You learn from your mistakes and don’t repeat them in the future.

In today’s world, it would seem that experience has the edge over book learning. But even so, most employers would never give you a second look if you haven’t been formally schooled or don’t have a college degree. You may have been working all your life, but the best jobs often go to those with the best education. So while experience is important, it loses its value unless built on a solid foundation of book learning, one that has been built brick by brick through school and college.

Agree? Disagree? Don’t care either way? Let’s talk!

Fever 1793

Fever 1973 (novel): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever_1793
In 1793 yellow fever is spreading through Philadelphia.

United States of America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their right to self-determination and their establishment of a cooperative union

The current United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787

Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain -
 Declared July 4, 1776 -
 Recognized September 3, 1783 -
 Current constitution June 21, 1788
 president—George Washington—took office in 1789.

American Presidents: http://millercenter.org/president

I think as long as we have something sufficient to satisfy our basic needs and then if we want something and then we can get but we have to be reasonable.

Something to think about:

 He asked something hardly discussed today: What is wealth for? How much money do we need to lead a good life? This might seem an impossible question. But it is not a trivial one. Making money cannot be an end in itself—at least for anyone not suffering from acute mental disorder. To say that my purpose in life is to make more and more money is like saying that my aim in eating is to get fatter and fatter. And what is true of individuals is also true of societies. Making money cannot be the permanent business of humanity, for the simple reason that there is nothing to do with money except spend it. And we cannot just go on spending. There will come a point when we will be satiated or disgusted or both. Or will we?

 http://chronicle.com/article/In-Praise-of-Leisure/132251/

The world is happier with out additional work to me!!

Camp Allen Experience

Dan, Please write down more about your experience in Camp Allen. I really enjoyed the stories you told about the adventures and mischievous things you did there.

Welcome to our Cabin. Hope we'll have fun sharing our thoughts, ideas, and experience here with each other. As the old saying goes, "Share the happiness with others, and you'll get manifolds more of it."

Dad's 1st

To my dear xj, mm and tt: this is our new space!