Pizzey's Perch

This may be hard to believe, but there was a time when “the school of hard knocks” was con­sid­ered as good as a for­mal edu­ca­tion. Today, expe­ri­enc­ing and learn­ing from the vicis­si­tudes of life has been replaced by metaphor­i­cal­ly swad­dling peo­ple in cot­ton wool and pro­vid­ing them with ear plugs and blinkers.… Read the rest