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I Love Education As My Mother Loves Me Reflections  ·  May 22, 2026 I Love Education As My Mother Loves Me ✦ Personal Essay ✦ 5 min read ❧ There is a kind of love that does not ask for anything in return. A love that wakes before you do, that worries about your future while you sleep, that pushes you even when you resent being pushed. It is patient. It is stubborn. It is unconditional. I know this love well — it is the love my mother has always had for me. And strangely, mysteriously, it is the very same love I have come to feel for education. Education, like a mother, does not always give you what you want. It gives you what you need. She Never Let Me Settle My mother never allowed me to be less than I was capable of being. When I brought home a good grade and called it enough, she smiled and said, "What about excellent?" Not out of greed — but out...