So even if the kids aren't really getting anything approximating a meaningful education, Seth Greenberg assures us that they've still gotten something useful out of college because he taught them where to put their fork on a place mat (listen to the clip, you'll see what I am talking about).
The storms of life offer an opportunity to respond in one of three ways to personal tragedy or failure: you can give up, you can try to cope using whatever dulls the pain, or you can grow and create something useful out of your experience or loss.
Foolish to act immediately, but it's a useful out.
Alex is lucky that her old job, hairdressing, is coming in useful out here, too.
"I thought I could make something useful out of something ill-considered," he told a friend.
These documents are useful out of all proportion to the space they occupy in "Family Business," providing balance between public and private voices.
In the tasks that face modern knowledge workers, paper is most useful out in the open, where it can be shuffled and sorted and annotated and spread out.
"The other thing is, you've undermined your ability to get something useful out of it anyway if you've lost your virginity, so to speak, by appearing to cave in to domestic protectionist pressures".
