From the mind of critic: “If we go through drivers ed, a DMV written test, a DMV drive test, and pass them all while driving with a restricted license or the first year, does it guarantee we’ll be a good driver? Does the extensive study of rules and regulations of the road, and the passing of tests on those regulations guarantee we’ll never get a ticket, never get in an accident, and always drive safe, sane and sober with all the other crazies on the road? Or does extensive study that produces satisfactory grades give us a false sense of security, because although we’ve read and seen what it means to be a good driver, we haven’t experienced it’s real life applications, so we take undue risks when otherwise we might not? Just because we’ve read, studied and tested extensively, doesn’t mean real life will turn out roses. At the same time, just because we’ve had many real life experiences, doesn’t mean testing and schooling will come easy either. Balancing school smarts and street smarts, is one of the aspects of being a complete human being. We can’t fully experience and know something until we think and live. When we remove life experience we aren’t living, when we remove book learning, we aren’t thinking. Once we realize that schooling alone does not an expert make, we’ll see that unless we critically think about our past, present and future and how they all fit together, we’ll never be the experts we claim to be. To ensure our 2×4 moment is a love tap and not a WWF piledriver, we must admit we don’t know everything, but are open to learning as much as we can. Driver training is a good thing, but is only effective when it leads to more questions. The more knowledge we gain, the more knowledge we discover we’ve yet to learn” 🙂