| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: on, fellows." He led them back, one of them protesting that he
would never scrub a floor for any man. He went ahead and scrubbed
the floor still saying that he wouldn't. That lad was weaker than
the leader. He went wherever he was led. The leader was a boy who
made his own decisions. He was ashamed of calling off the strike,
but he did it because he felt the strike was wrong.
This is the Mooseheart idea of education. Every boy must use
his own judgment. He faces every fact that he will face in life,
and by the time he is eighteen his judgment is as ripe as that of
the much older average man. The Mooseheart boys are not selected
students. They come from the humblest families, from homes that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Thus then I answer: since thou hast not spared
To twit me with my blindness--thou hast eyes,
Yet see'st not in what misery thou art fallen,
Nor where thou dwellest nor with whom for mate.
Dost know thy lineage? Nay, thou know'st it not,
And all unwitting art a double foe
To thine own kin, the living and the dead;
Aye and the dogging curse of mother and sire
One day shall drive thee, like a two-edged sword,
Beyond our borders, and the eyes that now
See clear shall henceforward endless night.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Upon such intelligence the general had proceeded;
for never had it occurred to him to doubt its authority.
Thorpe's interest in the family, by his sister's approaching
connection with one of its members, and his own views
on another (circumstances of which he boasted with almost
equal openness), seemed sufficient vouchers for his truth;
and to these were added the absolute facts of the Allens
being wealthy and childless, of Miss Morland's being under
their care, and--as soon as his acquaintance allowed him
to judge--of their treating her with parental kindness.
His resolution was soon formed. Already had he discerned
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