Learning and life... what it means?

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After more years of schooling than I care to remember, all I know how to do is to figure out what the square root of something, where the North Pole is and who died in which war. The world around us keep swelling with more and more information. And with the evolution of technology, we have learned that calculators and computers can do far more than just figure out what the angle of a three-sided equilateral triangle is. We know the direction of the migration of birds. But we are not sure in which direction we want to go ourselves. We have dissected assorted fish, rabbits and toads. But we have never really explored the dynamics of emotions or human relationships. We can construct perfects sentences and we may even hand in perfect essays of diverse subjects. But we do not know the practical magic of communication. Everything that the education that we have been through, has been designed to tell us everything we know how to do, except to live a life full of any sort of sense. Maybe that is the way it should be. A way of unraveling life's mysteries. A discovery of all life's secrets which are in fact neither mysterious nor secretive for that matter. That is where experiences comes in. It is the glue that gels the facts we learned from our education in life, to the realities of life that we can never learn in books or a classroom environment. This glue is the very essence that makes life worth living. It is this glue, that sometimes makes life, well, sensible. Life is a vision. And depending on where you stand on your level of growth, whether it is vertical or horizontal growth, the further you go in your learning altitude, the clearer your horizon becomes. And it not only becomes clearer, it becomes larger as well.