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It’s all the same, just the ‘language’ is different

GREENVILLE – “I never had a formal education, but I know what I know.” Bill Light is a musician, computer programmer, farmer, engineer, licensed pest control, chemist, bacteriologist, author, illustrator (although he says he just plays at that) and more. At the moment he was a volunteer for Prairie Days at Darke County parks.

How does he do ‘all that stuff?’

“It’s all the same,” he said. “Just the language is different.” He added he got 90 percent of what he learned from two individuals who were mentally challenged… “You can learn from people with Down Syndrome if you care enough to learn.”

Light never went to college but taught in college. He often found himself talking to professors who were happy to tell him where they got their degrees; then they would ask where he went to college. “I told them Johns University,” adding he did a lot of his reading and studying while in the bathroom. “In 40 years no one ever asked me where Johns University was.”

An accomplished musician, Light played bass. “I could make 400 bucks in a weekend,” he said. During the summer he would go to the Desert Inn in Columbus. “I made more money than ever there...

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