If I could teach anything, it would look like this: a student would leave the classroom more inspired, more open to life, more patient with the folding and unfolding of things, and less burdened by the trappings of self.
But I don’t think it’s possible to teach anything of value directly, in the sense of making someone shift their configuration of mind from what it is now to what it is able to be next. Nothing that can be impressed on another–through rote training, through a schedule of rewards or punishments, through algorithm–has the value that I’m talking about here.
I understand that this claim may be more simply understood as a statement of values rather than as a fact.