I had no master to teach me. I learned the simple X-stroke from my boyscout hand book. A security cop taught me about using the rocks under my feet, though I never made a hone till recently, from a chunk of slate that I'd found in a garden.

Now.! By putting steel to stone, the true learning begins. Test all the theory's....nothing adds up.!!? Well it shouldn't, just because. Science is a theory, till proven factual. It is what it is.

Another way to explain...

You spent 12 yrs in school learning ABC, and 123. I'm assuming u went to college, I didn't, I went to work. But once you were thrown into real life/work, you were totally lost, and the guy who started working at that same job you have 4 years prior, who doesn't have your degree, is making you look foolish.

Your scientific proof.. He's been there done that, and has a more intimate understanding of how it really works, beyond what's learned from a book.

Hone on, brother. Glory comes with sacrifice. Let the class begin.