The University of Hard Knocks

Ralph Parlette's famous lecture on the school that teaches us all, whether we enroll or not. With homespun humor he argues that our troubles and reverses are the real curriculum of life, grinding and polishing us into something better. He turns hardship from an insult into an education. Funny, folksy, and genuinely wise, it is a heartening reframe for anyone taking their lumps and wondering what they are for.