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I finished paying off my school loans in 1999. Like many paying on loans, I did not pay back just a bit more than I borrowed; it was close to double. I was almost a debt slave. Leaving grad school to find no professional employment opportunities put me behind the repayment eight ball from day …
Old-style apprenticeship programs had ceased to exist by the time I began my journey in craft. But I never would have fit into a traditional apprenticeship scheme. I wasn't settled enough for the discipline or capable of listening to and grasping all the directions. So I picked things up in a helter-skelter manner, and instead of a master-apprentice relationship, I had a series of mentors and benefactors.
Some things need to be memorized. For example, you can't learn a martial arts kata by reading a book, and you can't learn to carve an eagle by watching an online video.
A recent poll showed liberal art and social science grads as among the top regretters of the degree programs they had chosen. Among some, this has encouraged the entrenched believers in "hard-edged" degrees to say the equivalent of I told you so. I guess it's soothing to know that you made the right decision even though your hard-edged and tightly skill-designed degree marks you for obsolescence within a decade of graduation.
When I was about ten, the owner of the building where my father was Super gifted me with a slightly obsolete but complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, he'd replaced this older set with a brand new one for his children. So the Britannica soon was set up on shelves in a small basement room called my "laboratory." I conducted mayhem, anatomical dissections on a chicken, and the like there.Â
For most of us, sixth and seventh grade fall into the
My vocabulary was large. My lack of formal education equaled it.
It may have seemed as though I flit about Boston University's world my first two years there.
Life in the Village was not just about playing at the coffeehouses. It was about understanding the intellectual and artistic background of life. You'd be sitting with a fellow habituate listening to a discourse on Proust one day, Aristotle the next, and Steinbeck the day succeeding.
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