I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making … - Lucy Larcom

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If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

Lucy Larcom

I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.

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