Tim Yu wrote:

> [Sara]
> >>somebody once said to me that if someone does not understand you, you have
> >>not explained well enough!
>
> [Tony M.]
> >Or to take it a little further  "The pupil should exceed the master or
> >the master has failed"
> >
> >Now who said that?
>
> Don't know, but here is another (I think it's an old Chinese saying):
> "When the student is ready, a teacher will appear."
>
> Tim

Don't know either, but in a similar vein the British two pound coin has the
following inscription, attributed to Sir Isaac Newton: "Standing on the
shoulders of giants."

Chris

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