When we set our high level goals, that picture of perfection, like a dog resting quietly beside you at a busy pub, we often forget that this is the equivalent of a PhD in canine partnership. To achieve that PhD, your dog, and you as the handler, must diligently move through every single educational grade level. Skipping a grade is not an efficiency hack, it is a guaranteed failure. Let's break down the curriculum using the same timeline we apply to human education.