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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Every Man, His Own University, by Russell H. Conwell, published in 1917.

A distinct university walks about under each person's hat.

The only men and women who achieve success in the other universities of the world and

in the larger University of Life are those who have first taken graduate courses

and postgraduate courses in the university under their hat.

It is in this traveling university that observation furnishes a daily change in the curriculum.

Books are not the original sources of power.

It is observation, which may bring to us why it experiences, deep thinking, fine feeling, and the ability to act for oneself,

that is the true dynamo of power.

Without observation, literature and meditation are shower and sunshine upon unbroken soil.

The only true schools and colleges are those which persuade the students

under their charge to see more perfectly what they are looking at, to find what they should

have been unable to observe had it not been for their school instruction.

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