Life Skills Learner Gifts

Jack was hopeless at getting the right bits in the right holes.

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

"Winning isn't everything, Josh. Not being the reason your team loses is everything."

'I did it all from memory.'

Lion Tamers School - Lion licking his lips examiner marking a fail

Teacher has two boxes: "Book Smart" and "Street Smart"

Ed totally blows the final portion of his Chameleon Aptitude test.

'I'm sorry Timmy, but if I keep going for help, you'll never learn to take care of yourself,'

'The trouble with education is everyone knows how to teach, but nobody knows how to learn.'

'Dad, can you teach me to swim?' 'Well, I'm not much of a swimmer, but I can teach you to tread water. I do that every day at work.'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

A good executive is known by the company he keeps solvent.

"Thank you for 30 years of teaching service. Now you have 5 minutes to turn in your keys, I.D. card, empty your desk and be escorted out."

Welcome! University of Hard Knocks...Where common sense is better than smarts!

University of Hard Knocks

"In this life son, if you want something, you have to hunt for it."

"We all make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers!"

Moral Values for Dummies

'What did you learn at university today?'

Secrets of Adulthood.

"Does school really help people with real life?"

"I'm sorry, Dad. What I did was really stupid, selfish and wrong."

'So, just how long were you at the School of Hard Knocks?'

He who hesitates is five miles past his exit.

"What is this telling us? Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

'False alarm! I'm back. It was only a career suicide.'

'And that one painted and forgot to close the curtains.'

Advertising makes you crave things you never knew existed.

'Son, before you go, always remember the joy of life is in the journey, not the destination.'

Doctor looks at books under the genre 'Stuff they never taught you in medical school'.

Chad cheats death – and would live on to lead a very stupid life.

'You can't expect everything you need to just come falling from the sky'

Buddy hadn't learned from the time his tongue got stuck.

"I went with the flow and wound up in the French quarter."