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Re: Training kills spontaneous innovation Datakim Send a noteboard - 20/11/2010 10:19:38 AM
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.
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Training kills spontaneous innovation Lohikaarme - 19/11/2010 05:47:10 PM 722 Views
Re: Training kills spontaneous innovation Datakim - 20/11/2010 10:19:38 AM 792 Views
funny I was thinking about this just the other day and have much the same opinion darius_sedai - 18/11/2010 02:19:45 PM 1012 Views
That's not my interpretation. Fanatic-Templar - 18/11/2010 06:14:02 PM 954 Views
Re: That's not my interpretation. Watcher - 18/11/2010 07:11:02 PM 796 Views
Even if we were to accept that as true... Fanatic-Templar - 18/11/2010 10:55:31 PM 737 Views
Maybe... fionwe1987 - 18/11/2010 11:18:08 PM 701 Views
Could be... Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 03:01:35 AM 743 Views
None. fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 03:20:35 AM 734 Views
As you wish. Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 05:24:29 AM 720 Views
We're told exactly the opposite... fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 05:47:31 AM 779 Views
Exactly. Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 06:02:52 AM 732 Views
What are you arguing? fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 06:50:58 AM 729 Views
Though I dread doing this, perhaps an analogy? Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 06:16:30 PM 717 Views
You were right to dread... fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 10:02:05 PM 774 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 20/11/2010 06:25:53 PM 756 Views
Re: You were right to dread... fionwe1987 - 20/11/2010 08:18:53 PM 812 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM 844 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Sidious - 22/11/2010 08:36:24 AM 820 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 22/11/2010 07:32:04 PM 809 Views
I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had are the same RugbyPlayingAshaman - 18/11/2010 10:01:01 PM 748 Views
Re: I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had Datakim - 18/11/2010 10:41:07 PM 813 Views
The answers to your questions are all in the Big White Book and other characters POVs RugbyPlayingAshaman - 19/11/2010 04:11:03 PM 793 Views
Re: Nynaeve's new ability Datakim - 18/11/2010 10:27:47 PM 1063 Views
LTT was correct. eucatastrophe - 18/11/2010 11:12:52 PM 976 Views
except, as noted, the taint was constantly reoccuring LadyLorraine - 23/11/2010 08:09:08 PM 677 Views
Hmm. I think we don't have enough information. Skeeve the Great - 19/11/2010 07:40:30 PM 867 Views
Lots of reason to believe that the Taint was much stronger straight after the Breaking Lord Haart - 26/11/2010 01:24:17 PM 714 Views
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