LEARNING THE LESSON

There is always more than one aspect to learning any lesson. One starts by knowing what is suppose to be the lesson. You can't learn it if you don't even know what IT is supposed to be.

Then, providing you have figured that part out, the next part is understanding what the lesson is supposed to teach. And if you succeed in doing all of that then the last element is actually applying what you have learned, which is often proved by taking a test that one passes.

If all of this takes place in school, the whole process is simplified because it is spelled out. You even get a written test of some kind so you know what the lesson was intended to convey.

However, outside of the realm of formal educate, the school of life can be a little more vague in terms of its lessons. At least in some cases it appears to be a major problem.

It does seems that way to me. Otherwise you wouldn't see so many instances of people making the same mistakes over and over.

If that isn't a big enough problem the fact is that historically even governments manage to commit the same blunders way to often. The lesson to me in that regard is that obviously we aren't learning the lesson very well.

That isn't really much of a source of pride admittedly. It is like with war. What really happens during any war? There is generally all kinds of destruction and death.

Afterwards the victor gets the right to clean up the mess and then start over. Later, maybe even decades, as if having taken enough time to get totally stupid, another war ends up taking place, with pretty much the same results. Somebody calls this sane or a good idea?

You have to wonder. But it does leave me with one conclusion. Basically, we simply aren't very good students at the important stuff.

Now if you want someone who is an expert at fouling things up, heck we pay some people to be in a position of authority so they can accomplish that goal. And I suppose that should be a point of pride. Only I haven't noticed too many people doing much boasting in that regard.

Instead, the school of life continues from day to day. And I have a feeling nobody is worrying about if their homework is done.

I guess it is a good thing they at least don't have to make any excuses about why it isn't done. Even if later we all pay for the fact that the lessons being taught were never learned.