"The Prophet" By Khalil Gibran: On Teaching

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge". This is an audio extract of the book "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran, on teaching. The teacher asks the prophet to speak of Teaching and gets a spacious answer full of wisdom.

Transcript

On teaching.

Then said the teacher,

Speak to us of teaching.

And he said,

No man can reveal to you ought but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise,

He doesn't beat you enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm,

Not the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure but he cannot conduct you either.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge,

So must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

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