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 My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more 
 My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club). 
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
 Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and 
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.  
 Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and 
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. 
 What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
 Your Latin names for horns and stools;
  If honest nature read more 
 What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
 Your Latin names for horns and stools;
  If honest nature made you fools. 
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
 The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive 
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
 [Lat., read more 
 The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive 
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
 [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
  Ire viam qua monstret eques.] 
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
 We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for 
a madman is not cured by another running read more 
 We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for 
a madman is not cured by another running mad also. 
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.