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Education is meant to make us appreciate the things that are beautiful in nature.
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“Education is meant to make us appreciate the things that are beautiful in nature.”

Booker T. Washington

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Character Building
Date
1902
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Learning should enlarge perception as well as employability, helping a person notice value and beauty that might otherwise pass without attention.

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Character Building, “The Highest Education,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington places appreciation of beauty in nature alongside truth, justice, generosity and service as outcomes of education; this sentence belongs to the later address identified here rather than the earlier education address.

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