http://aboveyourself.com/blog/2007/12/learning-as-a-foundation-for-experience/ faith, personal improvement, and provident living Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:27:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://aboveyourself.com/blog/2007/12/learning-as-a-foundation-for-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Beth Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:43:57 +0000 http://aboveyourself.com/blog/2007/12/learning-as-a-foundation-for-experience/#comment-98 I wholeheartedly agree. When I graduated, I didn't really have any intention of "using my degree" -- I didn't want to teach and preferred to stay home with my kids, anyway. But that formal training proved very useful in a very unexpected way when I was asked to teach seminary! I found myself continually looking back to things I had learned in college to make things fresh for the kids and to give me perspective when things got hard. Even if I hadn't had that experience, though, I wouldn't regret my time at college -- it taught me how to learn and how to discipline myself and work hard ... and gave me so much self-confidence. I wholeheartedly agree. When I graduated, I didn’t really have any intention of “using my degree” — I didn’t want to teach and preferred to stay home with my kids, anyway. But that formal training proved very useful in a very unexpected way when I was asked to teach seminary! I found myself continually looking back to things I had learned in college to make things fresh for the kids and to give me perspective when things got hard.
Even if I hadn’t had that experience, though, I wouldn’t regret my time at college — it taught me how to learn and how to discipline myself and work hard … and gave me so much self-confidence.

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