What happened was he read a passage in a book that compared developing talent to farming. Some of the seeds a farmer sows will grow and some will not.
原來石滋宜在閉關時讀書，書上說：培養人才不是工業，因為工業的產品每個都一樣；培養人才是農業，農夫撒下種子，有的發芽，長成大樹，有的卻永遠埋在土裡。