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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
222
In
concluding,
let
me
say
to
you,
dear
girls,
for
whom
these
pages
have
been
written,
that
if
I
have
learned
anything
by
living,
it
is
this,--that
the
meaning
of
life
is
education;
not
through
book-knowledge
alone,
sometimes
entirely
without
it.
Education
is
growth,
the
development
of
our
best
possibilities
from
within
outward;
and
it
cannot
be
carried
on
as
it
should
be
except
in
a
school,
just
such
a
school
as
we
all
find
ourselves
in--this
world
of
human
beings
by
whom
we
are
surrounded.
The
beauty
of
belonging
to
this
school
is
that
we
cannot
learn
anything
in
it
by
ourselves
alone,
but
for
and
with
our
fellow
pupils,
the
wide
earth
over.
We
can
never
expect
promotion
here,
except
by
taking
our
place
among
the
lowest,
and
sharing
their
difficulties
until
they
are
removed,
and
we
all
become
graduates
together
for
a
higher
school.
Humility,
Sympathy,
Helpfulness,
and
Faith
are
the
best
teachers
in
this
great
university,
and
none
of
us
are
well
educated
who
do
not
accept
their
training.
The
real
satisfaction
of
living
is,
and
must
forever
be,
the
education
of
all
for
each,
and
of
each
for
all.
So
let
us
all
try
together
to
be
good
and
faithful
women,
and
not
care
too
much
for
what
the
world
may
think
of
us
or
of
our
abilities!
My
little
story
is
not
a
remarkable
one,
for
I
have
never
attempted
remarkable
things.
In
the
words
of
one
of
our
honored
elder
writers,
given
in
reply
to
a
youthful
aspirant
who
had
asked
for
some
points
of
her
"literary
career,"--"I
never
had
a
career."
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