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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 5660043" data-attributes="member: 93930">I learned more in my first six months in the real world than I did in all of my classes in high school, college, and grad school put together.  Conservatively speaking, I've had at least three different careers, and I went to school for one of them. The idea that a character would have to go back to school to learn things that hard knocks couldn't teach him is frankly ludicrous to me.  For Pete's sake, your character has been out fighting dragons, and you think some guy who's spent his life someplace safe and cushy like a university or a gymnasium has something to teach him?  You've got it the wrong way around.</blockquote>