We see it in the WT all the time: the trainees are told it cannot be done, so they'll never discover that it CAN be done. Perhaps this happened in the Age of Legends to a lesser extent.
Unlikely. If anything, innovation and research seems to have been something that was encouraged in the AoL. Sadly, this attitude was what got them into trouble in the first place, since it allowed them to discover the weakness in the pattern and bore through it straight into the DO's prison.
The whole "it cannot be done" attitude is primarily a White Tower flaw and it would not surprise me if Ishamael through the Black Ajah has been subtly reinforcing this flaw to keep the WT weak and stagnant.
Nynaeve's new ability
- 18/11/2010 01:41:38 PM
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Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though.
- 18/11/2010 02:19:06 PM
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- 18/11/2010 02:59:17 PM
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- 18/11/2010 10:51:02 PM
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Training kills spontaneous innovation
- 19/11/2010 05:47:10 PM
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- 20/11/2010 10:19:38 AM
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funny I was thinking about this just the other day and have much the same opinion
- 18/11/2010 02:19:45 PM
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That's not my interpretation.
- 18/11/2010 06:14:02 PM
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- 18/11/2010 07:11:02 PM
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Even if we were to accept that as true...
- 18/11/2010 10:55:31 PM
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Maybe...
- 18/11/2010 11:18:08 PM
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Could be...
- 19/11/2010 03:01:35 AM
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None.
- 19/11/2010 03:20:35 AM
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As you wish.
- 19/11/2010 05:24:29 AM
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We're told exactly the opposite...
- 19/11/2010 05:47:31 AM
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Exactly.
- 19/11/2010 06:02:52 AM
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What are you arguing?
- 19/11/2010 06:50:58 AM
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Though I dread doing this, perhaps an analogy?
- 19/11/2010 06:16:30 PM
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You were right to dread... 
- 19/11/2010 10:02:05 PM
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- 20/11/2010 06:25:53 PM
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- 20/11/2010 08:18:53 PM
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- 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM
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- 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM
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I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had are the same
- 18/11/2010 10:01:01 PM
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- 18/11/2010 10:41:07 PM
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The answers to your questions are all in the Big White Book and other characters POVs
- 19/11/2010 04:11:03 PM
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Lots of reason to believe that the Taint was much stronger straight after the Breaking
- 26/11/2010 01:24:17 PM
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