Some people think that a teacher implants his own thoughts into his pupil's mind. Well, only bad teachers are like that. Good teachers aren't gardeners, they are midwives: they don't transplant their own thoughts, they help bring to birth the thoughts of their pupils have conceived. There are more ways of learning from a teacher than taking over his opinions - and one of those ways involves reflecting on his opinions and then rejecting them.
~Coffee with Aristotle
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