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 In my biology lab this semester we discussed the "edge of learning." Its good to remember that you need to understand the material that you are dealing with before moving on, but also that you can go beyond an initial goal and see where your discoveries take you. If, as scientists (and academics), we begin to settle for the minimum, both we and science will not reach our full potentials and I'm sure that many important advances and discoveries would be lost. We need to think about advancements and how to better push ourselves and others further than the restraints of our own experiments. How can we learn to not stop at the end of the experiment and say, “Well okay, I did this and I proved this, that’s great!!!” and be done with the idea. It needs to be taught that yes we completed something, but now there are new ways to branch off after that and continue the research than to simply be done. So how can education present science as something that goes beyond the instruction manual in lab? I don’t have an answer to this.