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Time and good counsel are the greatest gifts a mentor can give to a student. Many things are most easily learned by tuition. You can stumble upon them or learn them from books. But they are easiest to learn from a mentor. Note that I do not say a master, as in master/apprentice. While there …
The nuns were clear. I was an incorrigible brat who would never learn to read. Sensing that they were wasting money, my parents removed me from parochial school and put me in the local public school. So much for the teaching abilities of the Sisters of Perpetual Pain!Less than two months later, I was reading …
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Let's start by saying that I have no desire to "speak" with my editorial program's new AI feature. Despite having worked on my doctorate, master's, and bachelor's degrees, I remain at the root of the folksinging road bum who dropped out of high school. I don't want some idiot savant telling me how to improve …
You only get one clean slate. That's when you are a kid. After that, you can scrub at it, but it'll always be a sort of palimpsest, with bits of the old layers faintly showing from below.
In today's terms, I had an attention deficit disorder. Teachers despaired of me. But the dojo seemed a good match for a kid who otherwise appeared to be only interested in his guitar.
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