Learning Must Never Cease

answered by Xunzi, An Exhortation to Learning

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

My Fair Lady (1964)

dir. George Cukor · USA

A person stands at the center of a wager that changing speech and bearing will change one's very station. Did the polished surface create a worth that wasn't there, or did a worth present all along finally come to light?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

If speech and bearing are changed, does a person's worth truly change too — or was that worth in them all along?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

學不可以已靑取之於藍而靑於藍

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Learning must never cease. Blue dye comes from the indigo plant, yet is bluer than the plant itself.

💡 TL;DR

Xunzi urged that learning never cease, saying dye drawn from indigo is bluer than the plant.

📝The Classic Answers

Xunzi urged that learning never cease, saying dye drawn from indigo is bluer than the plant. A person can, through learning, surpass the place that bore them. Yet a polished manner does not create a worth that was absent. What learning revealed was the blue that was within all along, though no one had seen it. When someone's surface is refined, I choose to remember that nothing new was made — what was there was brought to light.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

When you see someone changed on the surface today, view it not as something new appearing but as what was there coming to light.

📖 Classic Source: Xunzi, An Exhortation to Learning. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.