The Meaning of Peace
There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace.  
Many artists tried. 

The King looked at all the  pictures, but there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. 

One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for the peaceful towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. 

The second picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest.... a picture of a perfect peace.

Which of the pictures won the prize? 

The King chose the second picture. 
Do you know why?

"Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."

You are taught something by someone is one side of the story

You learn something, if not all of what is taught, is the other side of the story.

When you sit and review what was taught and what you learned, you will get to know about the gap that exists between what was taught and what you picked.

This gap will reveal whether it was your poor listening or poor understanding, apart for the teaching methods adopted, which were simple or complex.

There are very few teachers who would try to simplify teaching, but research and several studies will reveal our inability to listen properly and of course our understanding.

The simple thing therefore would be to increase our listening skills, and as far as the teachers are concerned they need to  make their teaching simple, which means they should break complex subject material and to simplify it  augment it by interesting stories or anecdotes that will enhance not only the learning but retention of what is taught. Recalling what is learned is the ultimate result of the whole process. The formula to firm up this learning would be to transmit the learning to more people who would want to learn something as well. So, from being a learner you too become a teacher. The more you learn, the more you teach the better you become.

Learn to make this a habit, if possible learn something new every day and teach that learning to somebody every day, to become a ‘Master.’

When your ignorance is lifted with learning, you reach another level of ignorance, so your curiosity to learn something more again will keep you razor sharp. This way learning ability increases on a daily basis and over a period of time the amount of learning and the amount of teaching you do will make you a wise person, an interesting person too.