Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda, “When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialize, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning.” “He slowly begins to learn – bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly. His purpose becomes a battlefield.” This is truly a dark depiction of learning. Is this principally caused by the interference of the interlopers in the attempts to learn, or is learning itself, the demands of managing consciousness itself, difficult and hazardous? What can Creator tell us?

What we will say here is that your question is not overly narrow, speculative, or ill‑advised and therefore misguided or assuming facts not in evidence. We can tell you that the reason the process of learning is so painstaking and long-term a proposition is in fact that humans themselves have been dimmed down and dumbed down by genetic manipulation done by the extraterrestrial interlopers to diminish you, diminish your reach and power through restricting higher awareness. Intuitive ability and the intuitive reach are extremely important ways of acquiring knowledge and with it an understanding of what the knowledge represents and its broad meaning, particularly with respect to the big picture—where one fits in as the member of a group of individuals who need to work alongside one another in harmony. Being cut off from this natural means of learning makes the role of student arduous and uncertain at best, and many suffer painfully and never recover from the squelching of their natural curiosity about the world and thirst for knowledge, being a casualty of the outside manipulations which compound the damage by constructing schools for the young more along the lines of prisons. They have enforced conformity, and constraints on movement and vocalization to minimize interactions that would be fruitful done the right way, in allowing greater freedom for exploration, with guidance more so than oversight by an authoritarian perspective that students must be told what to think in all circumstances and tested to see if they have absorbed the official dogma of the curriculum. No wonder learning can become fearful when one is put on the spot on a daily basis where they will be contrasted with others and made to feel inferior many times, or even humiliated if called on and made an example of by a harsh teacher. Most people going through public school enforced learning have come away scarred by many painful episodes witnessed, if not experienced personally, of emotional harm inflicted by teachers and peers because this is encouraged to happen through manipulation, also. It is no accident that the very environment entrusted to teach the young, which is rightly assumed to be the most important goal of society because it ensures continued civilization, is entrusted to the greatest of authoritarian bodies, the government, and left to the state in how the details are decided and formalized. Because all your institutions are corrupt, the same is true of the educational system as a whole in many, many respects. The end result is that the learning experience is simply not natural and becomes much more fear-based than it needs to. Fear of ignorance is primarily fear of being criticized and taps into a very deep fundamental common anxiety in the need for acceptance to have personal security and well-being. So when one's learning is under inspection and subjected to potential criticism, it is more deeply threatening and stressful than even teachers appreciate.