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The answer that is known but still unknown.

  " No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge." Whatever you have learnt is not new. It is already known to you. You are made aware of it by a teacher. It is human nature to know if told, to forget with time and then know again. Nevertheless we know it already.  It is the duty of the teacher to enlighten the student of what he already knows. The teacher cannot give his knowledge to the student but rather takes the student to what he knows by virtue of reasoning and coherent discussion. What the teacher actually gives the student is his love.  "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." These are my interpretation of the words of Khalil Gibran. The clarity of his thought resonate truth in me. It seems true that whatever we understand we already know. So it is in us the ans