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• W309261772 abstract "Where did you learn life's lessons - the ones that left a permanent stamp on your personality? Mine were learned on the way to school. We learn from all of our experiences in life. Education is more than schools and books, though they are certainly important. Education includes all the funny, little experiences as had when we were children. How, for instance, did you first learn about sex? The people who come into our lives furnish us with the raw material for constructing our learning experiences. Many of these experiences - the ones that count the most in terms of our character development - occur when we are children. We are barely aware we are getting an education. Life has a way of providing us with the lessons we are meant to learn. These lessons flow into our lives from a variety of different sources - home, neighborhood, community - all acting in concert in order to furnish the grist for our education. When I was a child, the world was a simpler place. Things were the way nature had designed them to be. No one asked for the impossible. Changing one's sex was as unthinkable as walking on the moon. Life danced to the eternal rhythms of nature. Birth and death confirmed one another. Computer technology had not invaded our lives. People were happy just to have electricity and running water. (Many families in my neighborhood still used outside privies.) Despite our primitive lifestyle, we all knew who we were and what we were about. Our lives were filled with a profound sense of community. The school was part of our community. No one expected it to redeem society. If we learned how to read, write, and figure, that was quite enough. Our neighborhood housed one of each type of human personality - work-a-holics and alcoholics, wife abusers and abusive wives, saints and sinners - all working and playing together. It represented a microcosm of the larger society (though we never used that word to describe it). Our neighborhood was populated with real people who possessed real emotions. By interacting with these people, we came to learn many of our most important lessons. What did I learn on my way to school? Mother. What was the greatest stroke of good fortune in your life? Mine was being born into a family with a loving mother. I never questioned whether or not my mother loved me. Of course she did, That was what mothers were for. My mother's love was unconditional. It was not something I had to earn. I was loved simply because I was her child. My mother's love - that was the base point from which everything else extended. None of the mothers in my neighborhood worked outside the home. Latch-key kids had not been invented. When school was over for the day, all the children dashed home, grabbed cookies and milk, and headed for the vacant lot to play. Home was a resource unit. Mothers were the support team. Whatever was needed for play, mothers provided it. My mother was a particularly good sport. When I bought my first car (which always had a dead battery), my mother, no matter what she was doing, would drop everything and help me push (by hand) my car down the street. My mother was an avid reader. Bedtime stories were a must at our house. My brother and I grew up on a assorted diet of fairy tales. We enjoyed the stories even though we knew nothing of the theory that fairy tales are complex metaphors that reflect universal themes running through human experience. The story of Hansel and Grethel, for example, illustrates the feelings that occur when someone is born into a family with an unloving mother. The stepmother and the witch are symbols of parental rejection. Something, fortunately, I never had to face. Father. My father was a hard man. Hard but fair. He loved three things - working, sweating, and cursing. He loved them just that order. Working with my father was like passing through a puberty ritual. You entered a boy, but you exited a man. Whatever my father did, he always did in a big way. …" @default.
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