An idea from Zhuangzi

A duke is reading the old sages when a wheelwright asks if they are still alive. They’re dead, says the duke. “Then the words your Highness is studying,” rejoined the wheelwright, “are only the dregs of the ancients.” He can’t teach even his son how a wheel feels.

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