The heightened sense of the self

The essence of learning is that it is a self-revealing process. Though we may study subjects (be it mathematics, social sciences, languages, -- anything your major or course or study may be), what we are ultimately learning is about ourselves. All knowledge ultimately becomes self-knowledge. The culmination of an education is heightened sense of the self.

Empirical learning for real-time skills cannot be gleaned from a book, an instructor, or any simulated setting. A fighter does not become a fighter by reading or watching how to be a fighter, nor does he become a fighter by partaking in practice fights. Nothing can replace a true fight, no matter how close practice may come to a real fight.

This must not be mistaken s a conjecture that seeks to making learning how to fight irrelevant. Given the same amount of time in training, the one who studies how to fight will become a greater fighter than one who does not, of he will be more aware of himself,

This is true for all things. Your schooling. Your job. Your family. Your life. The process of learning is to become more aware of oneself so that the real-time application may be better received.