The Analects

Learning and Thinking

Learning 4, Old and New

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Learning and thinking are usually bundled together. Say that you are studying and both are taken to be inside the word.

The Analects pulls them apart. Then it fails each one separately, and gives the two failures different names.

Earlier in the same book stands one more short line, this one about what qualifies a teacher. Read the two passages together and what learning is being taken for comes into view.

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