Wisdom begins where teaching ends.

Understanding begins where imitation stops. True learning starts when the inherited boundaries of thought collapse and one is forced to think without guidance, without comfort, and without certainty.

Teaching is a system of reduction. It simplifies what is complex so that it can be transmitted. But every simplification creates dependency: dependency on the teacher, on the structure, on the idea that truth can be received rather than discovered. Most people remain in this stage forever—they accumulate instructions, rules, and frameworks until their mind becomes a warehouse of borrowed clarity. The outcome is expertise without originality, competence without depth.