| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: do that--they love to."
That puzzled me again. If they loved to do it, how could it be
educational?
"Our theory is this," she went on carefully. "Here is a young
human being. The mind is as natural a thing as the body, a thing
that grows, a thing to use and enjoy. We seek to nourish, to
stimulate, to exercise the mind of a child as we do the body.
There are the two main divisions in education--you have those
of course?--the things it is necessary to know, and the things it
is necessary to do."
"To do? Mental exercises, you mean?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: but not the opportunities! My sins were all peccadilloes;
I always respected my neighbor's property--my neighbor's wife.
Do you see, dear uncle?" Mr. Wentworth ought to have seen;
his cold blue eyes were intently fixed. "And then, c'est fini!
It 's all over. Je me range. I have settled down to a
jog-trot. I find I can earn my living--a very fair one--
by going about the world and painting bad portraits. It 's not
a glorious profession, but it is a perfectly respectable one.
You won't deny that, eh? Going about the world, I say?
I must not deny that, for that I am afraid I shall always do--
in quest of agreeable sitters. When I say agreeable,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: his heart stood still. And all his life thereafter he hated horses.
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A different sort of fear that also greatly afflicted Benham was due
to a certain clumsiness and insecurity he felt in giddy and unstable
places. There he was more definitely balanced between the
hopelessly rash and the pitifully discreet.
He had written an account of a private struggle between himself and
a certain path of planks and rock edges called the Bisse of Leysin.
This happened in his adolescence. He had had a bad attack of
influenza and his doctor had sent him to a little hotel--the only
hotel it was in those days--at Montana in Valais. There, later,
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