Brave, definition of

Students are brave. Just think how brave students are. People who want to learn. The audacity. It is enough to make one cower in fear. It is true people will cower in fear before students. Cowering is bent low, a return to ground without earth. Why cower? Because you do not want to learn? Because you fear students? Afraid is not the opposite of brave. To want to learn you have to be braver than what you know. What you know is not a cowardly gain. What you gain on your way is not protected, but encased, within you. Who could cower before you now? Who would dare claim to be braver than brave?