Only by recognizing one's inadequacies can one begin to rectify them. Art is life. He who lacks one, lacks also the other. Life is a stream of irrevocable decisions requiring constant adaptation. The poles of a dichotomy mark the endpoints of a hidden continuum.
Truth is either tautology or approximation.
Education is in your own hands. Take it wherever you can find it. Events change a person's surroundings. The person changes themself. The fiercest disagreements are not about facts, but about the importance of those facts.