The Art of Learning: If I Show One Corner, You Must Return with the Other Three

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Confucius said: If a student cannot infer the other three corners from the one I show, I will not repeat the lesson.

When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

举一隅不以三隅反，则不复也。

Source: The Analects, Shu Er VII, Chapter 8 (Part 2)

Author: Confucius

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