"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." - John Stuart Mill

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“The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”

— John Stuart Mill

Being stretched beyond your comfort zone is how you discover what you're actually capable of. Don't shy away from the hard stuff — that's exactly where your real growth is hiding.

More from John Stuart Mill

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

— John Stuart Mill

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”

— John Stuart Mill

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”

— John Stuart Mill