The student listens, obeys and learns from the teacher (do as the teacher says). During this part of the process the student should follow the traditions set forth by the instructor and attempt to perfect his technique and character.
The student's goal is to be better than the teacher (perfect the technique). A major component of this part of the process is for the student to examine principles outside the system, question his own technique, and continue to strive toward perfection of character.
The completion of the process where the student via consciencious application of the first two concepts may actually become better than the teacher (the student becomes the teacher). The process comes full circle when the instructor returns to tradtion by seeing how outside principles can be applied to the system of life protection arts and that those principles were actually present all along, waiting to be discovered.
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