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School of Hard Knocks -- An idiomatic phrase meaning the (always and sometimes painful) education one gets from life, often contrasted with formal education. A phrase which is most typically used by a person to claim a level of wisdom imparted by life experience, which they consider at least equal in merit to academic knowledge. A response that is given when someone is asked about their education, especially if they do not have one but feel they have work or life experience that should be greatly valued instead.
It is also used facetiously to suggest that formal education is not of much practical value compared to work experience. The phrases "University of Life" and "School of Hard Knocks" may be used interchangeably. "That's life on the road for you. Sleeping in WalMart parking lots, living off $20 a day ($6 for food, $6 for bills, $8 for music), and being almost completely dependent upon the kindness of strangers. Not quite begging, but still among the most humbling of professions..." So, why bother?
Any university educated nerd, could do much better (at least, making money). We must be insane. All of us ... We love this stuff.
Descriptive of the many violent, scary and/or emotionally difficult events that give young people their "smarts" and teach them about the daily struggle to survive in the streets.
Something that an ignorant snotwicky who wouldn't know what to do with a book even if he/she owned one says when he/she finds out that you went further in education than him/her.
"I am a fully rounded example of the best in a human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and four gold Olympic medals from the Kung Woo school of Getting The Snot Kicked Out Of Me."
"College? Me? Nah. School of hard knocks, mate, school of hard knocks. Makes a blighter smarter, it does."
The practical experience of life, including hardship and disappointments used most often by those who didn't go to college for whatever reason and instead, went through hardships and disappointments with no hope of meaningful change.
He pulled himself up by the bootstraps and made his way through the school of hard knocks.
Somewhere between your thoughts of life and reality lies a snotload of hard work, bad luck, loads of sacrifice and probably not much common sense. It all started when living was simply trying to convert the lessons learned from rock and roll high school and the school of hard knocks. For most, this was not sufficient to provide a training effect.
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A standard philosophical, (philos-sophia: literally "lover of wisdom"), definition says that wisdom consists of making the best use of available knowledge. As with any decision, a wise decision may be made with incomplete information. The technical philosophical term for the opposite of wisdom is folly.
In his Metaphysics, Aristotle defines wisdom as knowledge of causes: why things exist in a particular fashion.
In addition to experience there are a variety of other avenues to gaining wisdom. For example, Freethinkers and others believe that wisdom may come from pure reason and perhaps experience, while others believe that it comes from intuition or spirituality.
Beginning with the ancient Greeks, European culture associates wisdom with virtue. Metis and Athene are associated with wisdom from earliest times. For example, many philosophers talk about the virtue of wisdom in relation to courage and moderation, and in the Roman Catholic church, wisdom (Prudence) stands with justice, fortitude and moderation as one of the four cardinal virtues. Plato's dialogues mention the virtue of wisdom, as knowledge about the Good and the courage to act accordingly. The Good would be about the right relations between all that exists. The Good, as a Platonic Form, would involve the perfect ideas of good government, love, friendship, community, and a right relation to the Divine. Perhaps the search or love of wisdom is more important than any proven claim. Socrates only claimed to know that he did not know, but this he was very certain of, and he showed the many contradictions in the claims of his fellow citizens.
Holists believe that wise people sense, work with and align themselves and others to life. In this view, wise people help others appreciate the fundamental interconnectedness of life.
Thoreau believed that "it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Nicholas Maxwell, a modern philosopher, argued that the basic aim of academic inquiry ought to be to seek and promote wisdom — wisdom being construed to be the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, wisdom thus including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides.
Aikido translates to "Harmonizing Energy." 
More than just self-defense; it’s the commitment to a peaceful resolution of conflict whenever possible and a commitment to self-improvement through Aikido training. The founder, Professor Morihei Ueshiba called it “The Art of Peace”.
The principles of Aikido are :
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“David, meet Sammy,” Angel hollered over the din of the production lines. “Sammy is the dude that makes this place go. If it makes noise or eats gas, he can make it purr.”
“We bought all of this used, for pennies on the dollar. The forklifts, conveyer belts, warehouse racks, pretty much everything. This is what I wanted to show you,” Sammy shouted as he walked over to the new expandable foam packaging station he had built. “Got the foam guns and shooter system in a dickering deal. Let me show you how this puppy works.”
He asked the assembly worker to stand aside as he took the controls. In his element, Sammy was already an expert. He picked up a Daisy lamp that had been cast in Jollymoon's Torquemada factory in Thailand and carefully placed it into a beautiful blue and white Canadan Green carton.
Without any wasted motion, almost like an orchestra conductor, he fired the guns and filled the empty spaces with expansive foam. After placing the custom shade his team had produced on top, he sealed the carton. Then, without warning, he lifted the box three feet off the ground and dropped it flat on its bottom. Thud. Then he dropped it again, but this time on its side. Then a third time, on a corner.
“Wow,” Angel observed eloquently.
“Yeah. He’s quite a guy. He taught me how to fly. He can mix with princes and paupers, priests and prostitutes. Everybody loves him. Well, everybody except the suits, and our professional managers, but that’s a whole another story.” [ more ]
T he structure is a hybrid of concrete and steel, clad with brickwork and render in different shades. The brickwork up to the first floor and ground-floor windows represents the colour of sand on the beach, then we have Marmorit renderin different colours. But I notice the render has weathered badly in places at the back, partly due to lack of cleaning. At the front, where it’s more exposed, there is no problem.
The main multi-purpose area links the three schools and doubles up as an assembly hall and dining and performance space. The flooring is Yellow Wood timber; a lot of institutions ask for it and it’s proved itself here.
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Everything is accessed off the main atrium. We did this to minimize the amount of corridor space. You do get the odd corridor, but the length is no more than 2m. The classrooms have big vision panels and windows on to the corridor, the whole idea being surveillance and transparency. At the end of the staff room, we designed a circular windowed area jutting into the corridor. The idea was the staff would sit there, having a cup of tea and keeping an eye on the children. But it hasn’t worked out — the spaces aren’t being used.
Each classroom is about 50sq m and you can then take out the moveable wall to get a large space used for exams. We’ve always had an issue with the blinds, and in one classroom I notice that a window has completely lost its blind.
The main public lobby area — which is also for the library, daycare facility and nursery — isn’t being used as we thought. There was meant to be a dispensing area with coffee, and the kids and the community would come in and access the internet. But the cafe area is now the reception, and the reception we designed is unused. There were plans to bring in a fitness centre operator, but the company hasn’t done that yet.
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Most people by age 40 have earned the equivalent of a college degree in the School of Hard Knocks. Unfortunately, no existing institution of higher education recognizes the intrinsic value of living, working, getting married, getting divorced, raising kids, getting laid off, and never making a hole-in-one. Our program (also called the School of Conventional Wisdom) has been designed to help people recognize what they are learning from life.
