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What does it mean?
Teachers are abundant but true learning requires a willing student.
In plain terms
You can find teachers anywhere but you must want to learn.
What can you take from it?
Learning starts with the student.

Where it applies

  • studying
  • training
  • self improvement

Putting it to work

  • cultivate curiosity
  • seek mentors
  • be active

Questions to consider

  • Are you a learner?
  • How do you show willingness?

Another view

Sometimes there are no good teachers available.

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  3. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture--such as I was when I made my pond--is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

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