Blue Born from the Indigo
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CORE DEFINITION
Indigo (blue pigment) is extracted from the indigo plant, but it is bluer than the plant; ice is condensed from water, but it is colder than water.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Iterative evolution. Do not blindly believe in 'fundamentalism'. Successors (new versions/students) should surpass the parent (old versions/teachers) through refinement and environmental changes (coldness). This is an inevitable law of evolution.
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'Blue Born from the Indigo' originates from Xunzi's 'Encouraging Learning': 'Blue is taken from the indigo plant, but is bluer than it.' It metaphorically means that students (or later generations) surpass their teachers, and later generations surpass their predecessors.
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%87%BA%E6%96%BC%E8%97%8Dverified
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