Re "One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates," by Richard Rothstein (Lessons column, Aug. 15): A four-year college is not for everyone.
I graduated after five lessons.
I'd always followed my Chinese tiger mom's directions -- I took piano lessons, graduated as valedictorian of my high school class, and accepted a full academic scholarship to The Ohio State University.
Its most famous graduates had used the lessons of Champs to shock the world.
As future employees in this industry, graduates must take the lessons of the ecosystem to heart.
After graduating, she began taking lessons from the Italian teacher Enrico Cecchetti, and she joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 1889, earning the title of prima ballerina in 1900.
In the earlier book, he has to adapt himself to the impingements of an alien reality: his daughter, Charlotte, the beneficiary of French and riding lessons, a graduate of Brearley and Harvard, has mutated into an increasingly hostile "iron-pumping yuppie" who does public relations for a tobacco company.
He was underwater on his mortgage and had borrowed and spent a little too freely during the good years -- for himself, pricey watches and a Porsche; for his wife, whatever she wanted, it seems, including cameras, sculling lessons and graduate school courses.
Parents may also assume that a child who has taken swimming lessons has "graduated" from the need for flotation devices.
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