L'élève dépasse le maître
Hi ! Does someone know how translate "l'élève dépasse le maître" in english ?
It's a expression which means that one person does better than his model/teacher.

I need it for a presentation and neither my teacher and my dictionnary were able to translate it.

Thank you ! :)

Question

L'élève dépasse le maître
Hi ! Does someone know how translate "l'élève dépasse le maître" in english ?
It's a expression which means that one person does better than his model/teacher.

I need it for a presentation and neither my teacher and my dictionnary were able to translate it.

Thank you ! :)

Answer

And here I thought this was a Chinese-y, kung fu-y kind of expression :)  I would say, "The student has surpassed/surpasses the master."

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