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I'll briefly steal from Jewish Hasidic tradition (I read this in Martin Buber's Tales of the Hasidim many years ago): Rabbi Zusya was on his deathbed and many of his students came to see him. He told his students, "In the world to come they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'

If a teacher expects the student to become an exact replication of himself, then the teacher is a failure for the student. If the student expects the teacher to make him or herself an exact replication of the teacher, then the student is a failure for the teacher. Truth, whatever it is, can never be discovered through purely imitation.

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