Higher Education...

You can only give what you have
     or hear the request and laugh,
for what is yours to give
     is, indeed, what you need to live
The love you have gained,
     the love you have lost
The cost of a sad smile,
    water trickling through a sieve

You don't always teach what you know
     You may not believe it
but in the end the intention shows
     if you can learn by my faults and mistakes,
then take the lesson and grow
     but judge not lest i judge you
then no one learns, just tempers flare, smolder and burn;
     seeds on hard ground shall not be sown

No, we don't fall far from the tree,
      but neither do we all learn on papa's bouncing knee
Sometimes we grow alone, wild, naive and free
     from having been taught nothing
We learn from how we're treated
     not from what class in which we're seated
A lesson must be often repeated
    if at first you don't succeed...