Where the mind is without fear

When I was kid I hd heard of a proverb 'At young we learn and at age we understand". At that time I havent really realised the meaning behind this proverb but now its meaning is really revealed to me.
The reason for writing this is ; Few lines of Tagore :"Where the mind is without fear ..."

As a kid I neva understand the depth behind this poem..but yet for approx 18 yrs this the only poem I remember..My primary school teacher has made me to learn his poem by heart ..at her pressure i took effort to make all the words stored on mi lips..but didnt understood the meaning of these lines..Its only after watching RDB ..all of a sudden the words started saying their meaning to me ..

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

Now I feel it took me 18 years to know my goal..Now I am working on the process