My mother insisted that I do well in school. Education is the key to self-improvement, she believed, but I missed a lot of school as a teenager, approaching the legal limit of days a student can be absent before graduation is denied.
Instead of engaging in delinquent behavior, however, I honored my mother by asking my teachers and fellow students what I had missed, arranging to complete the missed work, obtaining the required books and assignments, and working alone in the library.
In the process, I learned how to learn in the absence of formal instruction. I graduated from high school with honors, and the skills I had acquired allowed me to excel at the university and graduate levels, in work and in business.
I sincerely believe that no subject is beyond my grasp and that I can help any student at any age-level in any subject.
Learning is learning. I'm good at it, and I can teach you how to be good at it, too.