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When the [[Learning Learning/Sage|Sage]] points at the moon ——— |
When the [[Learning Learning/Sage|Sage]] points at the moon ——— |
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———————— the fool looks at his [[Learning Learning/finger|finger]] |
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———————— the bad dog [[Learning Learning/bites|bites]] it |
———————— the bad dog [[Learning Learning/Parable 1/bites|bites]] it |
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———————— the nice dog [[Learning Learning/licks|licks]] it |
———————— the nice dog [[Learning Learning/Parable 1/licks|licks]] it |
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Revision as of 18:37, 26 June 2006
When the Sage points at the moon ———
———————— the fool looks at his finger
———————— the bad dog bites it
———————— the nice dog licks it
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"The sage points at the moon; the fool bites his finger." – attributed to Lao Tsu
Warren McCulloch used this version:
"A child looks where you are pointing; a dog comes to your finger."
But issues about learning are seldom quite clear:
A pro-dog friend tells me that some dogs can learn to look where you are pointing. Human toddlers all learn to use and understand the pointing gesture very early but there is controversy about how much this is supported by innate factors. Perhaps it is entirely innate.