The lesson went the way of all first skiing lessons.
The lesson went on without my taking in a word of it The next began, the last that morning.
Well, lessons were going to have to be taught immediately.
The lessons around ground zero go well beyond protecting against fire.
He wondered how much longer the introductory lesson was going to take.
"You just hope the hard lessons are going to be remembered."
"The lessons of the last two years are going to be critical," he told me.
But the lessons we have to learn from current events go much further than that.
He had learned that old literary lesson well enough: You couldn't go home again.
And he understood too that the lesson went both ways.