CURRENT ISSUE 05/27/03 Front Page Weekly Features Ain't That America? To-Do List News from Travistan Musing with Mitch Moth's Diary Globetrotting with Push Riding Shotgun with Adventure Info Archives Crap Shop Who's at Fault? Contact Us! Aye, mateys! Get you some Daily Probe booty!	Life Experience Now Available in Schoolbook Form WASHINGTON (DPI) - Real-life, nose-to-the-grindstone experience, until now achievable only through a lifetime of backbreaking work, is now available in a six-week study course offered at select community colleges nationwide, according to educators. Its creators tout the course, "Introduction to Hard Knocks in Modern Society," as a convenient way for students to gain insight into the myths and stark realities of present-day American life. "We are offering the class in several convenient evening sessions as an alternative for those students who don't want to face the toil of raising a family under difficult circumstances, building a hard-earned career and learning the value of a good honest day's work on their own," said Lawrence Brandt, adjunct professor of sociology at George Washington University and founder of the Washington-based think tank Fancy Book-Learning Institute. "Our grandfathers usually were able to share their experiences, beginning with nothing but the shirts on their backs, and offer their kids appreciation for things like taking what they're given, shutting up about it, and liking it," said Brandt. "We've collected those experiences and packaged them up into book form, or for those who prefer to study at home, into four one-hour audiocassettes." Brandt hopes to expand the program offering to eventually establish a College of Hard Knocks at major state universities nationwide. "We never had this kind of thing when I was growing up," he said. "I had to work for my experience." (Reported by Travis Ruetenik)
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