And then there's maybe the most important lesson of all: When in doubt, call your parents!
In the end I was able to set up my experiment and gain the very valuable lesson of patience when things you cannot control go wrong.
Certainly, this was the lesson of 1991, when eleven Democrats defected from their side and voted to confirm George H. W. Bush's Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
They should recall the lesson of Jan . 5 , 1995when Republicans responded to their own new majority by recognizing that it wasn't permanent.
We hope American voters have learned the lesson of 2000, when Mr. Bush escaped serious questioning on foreign affairs during the campaign.
He read a biography of Alexander the Great, and he read "The Red Badge of Courage," fortifying himself with the lesson of staying when one might want to turn and run.
There is the lesson of 2011, when another callow England team went to Cardiff and won in style.
These same worthy souls apparently have forgotten the lesson of 1999, when they argued that the market was going down because that indicator was negative; the S&P ended that year with a 19% gain.
This is partly because of the lesson of Iraq, when too much was based on too little hard information and all the caveats and cautions surrounding intelligence were lost.
In short, although the economy will likely recover in time, once again a generation is learning the lesson of Ozymandias: when you believe something is forever, you are ascribing to human beings the eternity that properly belongs only to God.
