Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
Eric IdleRead
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Interpretation
Education can be difficult, but it often leads to personal transformation and success.
In this quote, Eric Idle reflects on his challenging educational experiences under the RAF Benevolent Fund. He emphasizes how this tough upbringing, despite its hardships, ultimately led him to a prestigious institution like Cambridge and compares it to a chrysalis's metamorphosis into a butterfly, symbolizing growth and transformation through adversity.
In practice
During a school assembly to inspire students facing difficulties, a teacher could quote this to illustrate resilience.
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
From daycare to graduation, our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that are set a little higher for those whose parents do not have the money to smooth their path in life or the inside knowledge of how the system works.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Everything we know, we learned from someone else!
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