An Interesting Proverb

Theon, in airing his frustrations about people debating without appropriate training, recorded the following proverb as an illustration of such behaviour,

"learning pottery-making by starting with a big jar" (The Exercises of Aelius Theon) 1

I like it.

1. Kennedy, George, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003), p. 3.