The University of Life
StoryAnalogy★★★★When Charles R. Brown of Yale was addressing students on a western campus, he said: “I come from a larger university than this: it is larger than Columbia, or Yale, or all the American universities combined. It is the University of Life. Our colors are black and blue, for we learn our lessons by hard knocks. In this university there is only one examination day, and in that examination there is but one question. It - is that question that I have come to ask you. What is life?” Then he continued: “Let us ask the Great Teacher of all the ages, and hear his answer by word and deed: life is service: ‘Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,’ ”
Also attributed to: Charles R. Brown
The point
Charles R. Brown describes life as a university where lessons are learned through hard knocks and the final exam asks one question: 'What is life?' He answers with Christ's words that life is service.