Book Description

We all get hard knocks. How can we benefit from them? How can we avoid them? This book tells how. It's simple. It's the truth told interestingly, humorously. Its lessons will be valuable to you. The School That Completes Our Education "The greatest school is The University of Hard Knocks. Its books are bumps. Here we learn all we know, and write it in the only book we ever own - The Book of Our Experience. "Every bump we get is a lesson. If we learn the lesson with one bump, we don't get that bump anymore, we get promoted to the next bump." William Jennings Bryan says regarding this book of optimistic philosophy and humor: "I am glad to commend Ralph Parlette's book 'The University of Hard Knocks,' which is full of simple and practical philosophy." Judge Ben B. Lindsay, Colorado's famous Juvenile Judge, says: "This book is a great big boost for everybody and everybody ought to read it. People ought to buy them by the gross and send them to their friends." "Has the grace of vividness. It is full of what the newspapers call 'punch.' And this is doubtless the reason for its popularity....It is readable and interesting." -The Christian Advocate Contents SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS I. THE BOOKS ARE BUMPS II. THE COLLEGE OF NEEDLESS KNOCKS III. THE COLLEGE OF NEEDFUL KNOCKS IV. "SHAKE THE BARREL" V. GOING UP VI. THE PROBLEM OF "PREPAREDNESS" VII. THE SALVATION OF A "SUCKER" VIII. LOOKING BACKWARD IX. GO ON SOUTH! X. GOING UP LIFE'S MOUNTAIN "Here is a great mass of words and sentences and pictures to express two or three simple little ideas of life, that our education is our growing up from the Finite to the Infinite, and that it is done by our own personal overcoming, and that we never finish it."