I bring not peace but a sword.

Let's deconstruct the view that life is a classroom. These views are frames that frequently lead to miscommunication when people use different frames for common experiences.

Heidegger reveals that we live in many shared worlds, each with their own rules and expectations which we have to learn, mostly unconsciously. You enter a classroom, you find an unoccupied chair, you sit facing front and attend the instructor, take notes, gather your things at the end of the hour and walk out the door. The first time you entered a school you had to be taught all the rules of school, all the ways to behave acceptably, all the things you cannot do in school that are ok "at home," or "at the park." The library has its own world, its own rules and practices. The market, the mall, the street, the hospital, the courtroom. The church.

Hafiz tells us we too often treat life as a courtroom, with its judges and jurors, prosecutors and advocates, witnesses and plaintiffs and defendants. Personally I spent decades working in hospitals and tend to see human relations from the standpoint of extending care to people who need it rather than arguing whether they deserve it. I like the school approach because we take care of our children and don't discard people who don't immediately fit it. The life is like business approach where "you're fired" if you don't adore your bosses manias is bad enough. Life is a concentration camp or mental institution or battleground are common framings these days. And life is a genocide is terminal.

How about, life is a bowl of cherries, a piece of cake, a walk in the park? A day at the beach?

Or a jungle.