sn16.6:4.1 “Yes, reverend,” those monks replied. They went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to them:
sn16.6:4.2 “Is it really true, monks, that you’ve been competing in studies, saying:
sn16.6:4.3 ‘Come on, monk, who can speak more? Who can speak better? Who can speak longer?’”
sn16.6:4.4 “Yes, sir.”
sn16.6:4.5 “Have you ever known me to teach the Dhamma like this:
sn16.6:4.6 ‘Please mendicants, compete in studies to
sn16.6:4.7 see who can recite more and better and longer’?”
sn16.6:4.8 “No, sir.”
sn16.6:4.9 “If you’ve never known me to teach the Dhamma like this, what then do you know and see, you futile men, that after going forth in such a well explained teaching and training you’d compete in studies to
sn16.6:4.10 see who can speak more and better and longer?”