Who Needs to Be Smart?
Who needs to be smart: the teacher or the student?
Some people excuse bad teaching by saying: students buy it, so it's OK to sell it. But pushers of drugs say the same. It is the responsibility of the teacher to teach the truth, even if the student cannot tell the difference between right and wrong. It is also the teacher's responsibility to teach in a way that really develops the student's Wing Chun knowledge.
Imagine that a would-be student needs medicine. Is it fair to prescribe him a fake medicine just because he cannot tell it from a real one? The same is true of phony teachers and made-up lineages and philosophical malfeasance.
For years, the Chinese communist authorities tried to silence intellectuals' concerns and were irritated, to say the least, when someone questioned their policies and "official" party line.
Some may not like the Phenix's posts, but the truth only hurts when it should.
Good luck on your journey.
John Weiland
"Et si fellitur de genu pugnat"
(And if he falls, he fights on his knees)
---Motto of the Roman Legionary
"Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth
and you will get neither." --C. S. Lewis