“It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson, book The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 2: "The Haj in the Heart", Ch. 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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American science fiction writer 1952

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