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Pete Seeger

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

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Education involves learning details carefully and understanding rules before acting, while experience comes from dealing with the consequences of not paying attention to those details. In other words, education prepares you by teaching what to expect, but experience teaches you through real-life mistakes.

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