Chapter 19 educate

Then a teacher said, please tell us about education. He said: No one can enlighten you but that which lies half-awake in the dawn of your understanding. A teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple and among his followers imparts not his wisdom but his faith and love. If he were indeed wise, you would not be commanded to enter the halls of his wisdom, but the bow!Guide you to the door of your own soul. The astronomer can teach you his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his sense. A musician can sing to you a melody that resounds everywhere, but he cannot give you an ear to catch it, or a voice to respond to it.

Men of mathematics can talk about the realm of weights and measures, but they cannot lead you there. For the insight of one man cannot lend its wings to another. Just as each of you stands alone in the world of God's knowledge, each of you has independent knowledge and understanding of God and the world.