During the Spring and Autumn period, Confucius spent fourteen years traveling among the various states. Mencius, Han Feizi, and even Sima Qian later rushed to follow his example, all of them gaining extensive experience through travel and study.
Read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles.
Britain also had a tradition of the Grand Tour. The advertisement printed in the Paris Gazette gave Georgiana an idea—why shouldn't she try being a "tour guide"?
When Dante went sightseeing in Hell, he found Virgil as his guide. And whether it was "the teacher's school" or "the student's school," there was always a teacher-student relationship, and there would always be students who refused to submit to authority and loved challenges and adventure.
That old bat was simply asking for trouble. He assigned so much homework, then gave students detention and made them process potion ingredients.
Those playful children did not realize that this was a fundamental skill. It was like cooking: if the meat was cut into chunks of different sizes, some might already be cooked while others were still raw. By the time the large pieces were done, the small ones would be burnt.
Yet excessive obedience was not a good thing either. Some "bosses" exploited students under the guise of a teacher-student relationship. The apprenticeship system in the textile industry was like that. Georgiana remembered Pete saying that a girl had been driven to desperation and tried to throw herself into a river. She was discovered in time, however, and was not punished, because the factory owners feared similar incidents would spread like an infection. So they let her go.
When young Werther was tormented by love, young girls were driven to the same desperation by crushing work. It was impossible to say whose circumstances were more tragic. Adults simply did