A philosopher was advising his children as follows:
“Dear to me as life! acquire knowledge; for there is no reliance to be placed in worldly possessions, either of land or money. You cannot take rank abroad with you; and silver and gold on a journey occasion risk, and either the thief may carry it off at one swoop, or the owner will gradually expend it: but knowledge is an ever-springing fountain, and a source of enduring wealth, and if an accomplished person ceases to be wealthy it matters not, for his knowledge is wealth existing in his mind itself. Wherever the accomplished man goes he is esteemed, and is seated in the place of honour, while the man without accomplishments has, go where he will, to pick up scraps and endure raps.”

To often we associate knowledge today with intellectual achievement as outlined by schools colleges and Universities.  However there is much to be known beyond this, knowledge of the heart, sensitivity and creativity, knowledge of the body from physical fitness to diet and relaxation from the sensuality of pain to pleasure, emotional understanding, and intuitive knowledge, all these and more we could have knowledge of.
First before all like the student at a college we need to prepare, to work out how we can learn, what tools we will need internally from the self and externally from the world. What will be our pen and paper, and who our teacher, and where will the class be…
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