Summary: <p>Listen to episode 165 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get a Real Education (Individuality). Edited & adapted from Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>A distinct university walks about under each person’s hat. The only men and women who achieve success in the other universities of the world, and in the larger university of life, are those who have first taken graduate courses and post-graduate courses in the university under their hat. It is in this traveling university that observation furnishes a daily change in the curriculum. </em></p><br> <p><em>Books are not the original sources of power. It is observation (which may bring to us wide experiences, deep thinking, fine feeling, and the ability to act for oneself) that is the true dynamo of power. Without observation, literature and meditation are shower and sunshine upon unbroken soil. </em></p><br> <p><em>The only true schools and colleges are those which persuade the students under their charge to see more perfectly what they are looking at, to find what they should have been unable to observe had it not been for their school instruction. </em></p><br> <p><em>You can't make a good arrow from a pig's tail, and you can seldom get a worthwhile man or woman out of one who has gone through the early part of their life without having learned to be alert when listening and seeing. How to observe should be the motto, not only in the beginning of our life, but throughout our career.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Educational Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/how-to-live-true-to-yourself/">How to Be True to Yourself</a></p><br> <p><a title="Educational Podcasts" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/college-vs-the-school-of-life-an-education/">College vs. The School of Life</a></p>
