a wise man once told me

[luckyleftyme2]

an educated man is a man of experience. one of his many sayings was"did you ever see
a law professor try a case in the court room?"
a prize fighters manager in the ring
who taught BILL GATES
an invention that couldn't be improved

life is short, and show me a man who is to old to learn and I will show you a lost
soul.
the man i refer to was named walter (gramp) Johnson. I was fortunate to work for him
in the early 50's. he started on a tunnel job in new york as a rod man on a survey crew.by the time the tunnel was finished he had earned his degree in engineering.
he finished his career as new york city's chief engineer. he then moved to maine to live with his daughter. a year after he came to maine his daughters husband had a heart attack. gramp went to work for a company as a surveyor.(surveying was his first love) I became his transit man.we worked on the turnpike,military air bases and pease air force base in N.H.
I was 17 at the time. how in later years I wished I had paid more attention,retained
more of his wisdom for it was so far ahead of a class room.Of all the great people I
have met in life's travel he has left the greatest impression.

[mainegreen]

1. It is true that experience beats book learning.

I always find with candidates that we interview, those with plenty of real world experience come off much better than those with formal education, but no experience. You can't teach experience, and there is simply no substitute.