When my brother,, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: Just my luck! he would say. What a pity she was not born a man! But then I gradually realized that people were saying Its bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good, and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.
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About Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was Japanese novelist and poet (c. 973 – c. 1014). Murasaki Shikibu , or Shijo , was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity