The Learning Samurai

On our flight from Japan to Hawaii, I read William Scott Wilson's The Lone Samurai, a study of Miyamoto Musashi - the legendary Japanese swordsman/painter/author - by William Scott Wilson.

One interesting quote from The Book of Five Rings.

"I have never had a teacher while studying the Ways of the various arts and
accomplishments, or in anything at all"

I take that to mean that, while he obviously learned from many, he questioned everything and proved it to himself. 

That's a good learning strategy for any of us.