Quotes! Quotes!

"A good teacher encourages a student to learn...
                ...A great teacher takes the back seat after."

               This quote from Teacher Yna reminded me a lot about kung fu masters.  From what I know, these masters teach everything they know to their students or followers.  It is like the passing on of the knowledge that the master also learned from his master before him.  This culture of handing down is like making that valuable wisdom alive for eternity.  It immortalizes the knowledge from generation to generation.

                In a manner like this, the teacher has that power of  preserving and enriching the knowledge that he or she has by simply teaching it.  The influence of a teacher is boundless.  And the treasure that a teacher passes on to his or her students is the one that could never be stolen nor be taken away.