backhoeboogie":1k2xqsao said:
snake67":1k2xqsao said:
Shows book learning might not be all it is cracked up to be.
Best to all
Bez
Or maybe what you do with it. Or maybe what you don't do with it.
Backhoeboogie you are sure right.
I have learned a lot from all kinds of people. I think of one man in particular that came to Louisiana from the Hudson Bay area not being able to read or write the English language. He taught himself and became a very wise and successful business man. He referred to himself as an old sourdough and also as a teacher.
But he made sure his kids had the opportuity to go to college.
I have also learned a lot from professors who ranked among the very outstanding as productive individuals. We would sure be in a mell of a hess without these people. Many, if not most, of us would be starved or dead of disease if not for booklearning.
I remember being in severe pain and being so thankful for medication to get me through it. I am also thankful for an old German chemist, surrounded by his books, who laid the ground work for aromatic chemistry which in turn made possible the development of many medications.
Bez the best pilot and instructor I have ever been in a plane with only had a HS education. But he was not good because of that fact. He was good in spite of that fact.
But I don't think that airplane would have flown very well without the expertise of the scientist and engineers who designed and built it.
I have learned to value and respect those that are ahead of me no matter what road they traveled. That way tends to open doors. A critical attitude closes doors.
And that's my say on the matter.
