So what? Nynaeve is not Egwene's student. She has no authority, seniority or rank on her. Egwene agreed to play by the Wise Ones' rules in accepting their teaching, and promptly broke her word. Nynaeve, by contrast, refused to accept the authority of the Wise Ones, even though she knew she could get away with not keeping her word, despite Egwene mocking her to the Wise Ones. So any moralization about using Wise One methods is a crock, because, A. Egwene is not a Wise One, B. Nynaeve does not acknowledge the authority of Wise Ones, C. the Wise Ones are the keepers of a barbaric culture of savages, who sanction and encourage recreational homicide and armed robbery, and supported the Aiel War, a conflict with less moral justification than the Seanchan conquests, not to mention lying to their people for 3,000 years to set up the bleakness and civil war among the Aiel, D. Egwene has absolutely no authority over Nynaeve at all, and E. Nynaeve is actually out in the world trying to accomplish specific goals with a greater good behind them, not sitting on her butt under the protection of the Wise Ones and armies of Aiel. She does not have the luxury of taking it easy like Egwene - for Egwene it is all about learning new skills and tricks; for Nynaeve it is all about grasping at whatever straws she can because she needs every hair she can achieve with one of the Forsaken hunting her with a personal grude.



Nynaeve didn't cost Birgitte squat which, you may recall, is Birgitte's own view of the matter. And so what? Birgitte's life is a small price to pay for an advantage over the Forsaken. In any event, this has jack all to do with the matter at hand, and is particularly obnoxious suggesting that Nynaeve or Elayne need ANY lesson in caution from an idiot who commits drastic tactical blunders EVERY TIME she steps out from a circle of armed guards and powerful channelers. The woman who alerted the Tower embassy to a possible sister among Rand's entourage, who channeled for all the world to see while attempting to avoid Aes Sedai notice because she was indulging her pique at being refused permission to come aboard a Sea Folk ship, and who goes on to get captured and doom her cause because she couldn't think to take ANY precautions when changing the chain of the harbor in Tar Valon.



Where does Egwene get off assuming the role of teacher? Not only that, she had NO intention of doing do. Her own PoV reveals that she intended to teach no lessons, merely terrorize Nynaeve to distract her from noticing Egwene's own wrongdoing. It was not Nynaeve's incaution that she was trying to "teach" her to supress, it was Nynaeve's insight! You are basically justifying theft on the grounds that the victim would have spent the money foolishly anyway.



So if a rape victim is not angry but terrorized and full of shame it's not the rapist's fault? Would not the feeling of shame indicate the so-called victim really did have something to be ashamed over?