What is the divine perspective of the saying: “Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach?”

There is wisdom in this observation. It can be thought of quite superficially as representing a personal failing of those choosing to be teachers. It is not always the case that teachers lack talent and ability to be a part of the working world and competing with others and excelling potentially, to become leaders in their field and innovators. There are many fine teachers who simply enjoy the role, and especially those who admire the young and want to be of service to help them in a way to make them flourish, will be drawn to teaching work and this is a blessing in the world you inhabit because that is the requisite for advancement. It is the system you have and although it is imperfect, surviving and meeting that challenge is very much a requisite for success in today’s world. Anyone who helps the young survive this gauntlet will be conferring many blessings and that in itself is divine, representing service to others for a high purpose. The deeper truth here is that because the system is flawed, all who serve it are to some degree serving the darkness. This is not realized by those involved with education. The institutions entrusted with education are revered and respected because they are the pillars of culture and attainment because almost all who are successful undergo the educational process created by society as a rite of passage, as a credential for taking part in any area of responsibility. This has increasingly become a requirement. The fact it is a subversion of human initiative and creativity is the fault of those who corrupt your world. The deeper truth in this saying is that the service to a corrupt institution results in a lessening of the individual because they are serving the darkness and will be dragged down to some extent because there will be a karmic penalty exacted from them in the future. There is an inner knowing by those who endure the educational system and its regimentation, that there is something faulty in its makeup. That is an intuitive awareness of a deeper truth that what they are being asked to do makes little sense and seems illogical and even inhuman in many ways. Those feelings are suppressed in order to cope, and people override their instincts because the culture demands this, and people generally want to be cooperative and to fit in, in order to be accepted and be successful, so they will squelch their own inner criticisms simply to not be in conflict with themselves and resign themselves to serving that system and jumping through the hoops it raises and over the hurdles it places in the way of the learner to prove their worth and meet the quite arbitrary criteria for advancement. So the deep truth here in the somewhat mocking tone of this saying is a deep inner recognition that the emperor has no clothes, and the emperor’s minions, in this case the teachers of a flawed system, are serving a false god. We are not decrying the need for knowledge. We are simply pointing out that from the divine perspective the system is rigged to minimize learning, rather than encourage and offer opportunities for people to flourish, where they will learn far more by doing than by sitting in classrooms year after year going through pretend exercises and spooning facts into their brain they will little remember. It is only when they join the working world that their true education begins. There needs to be some priming of the pump with the cultural conventions, use of language, and knowledge of arithmetic and the workings of society. Beyond that, an apprentice system would do far more to create a world where people thrive and advancement is accelerated. People waste their best and most energetic years sitting on the sidelines meeting the requirements of a procession of teachers serving this system of incrustation to convey what is largely flawed information, incomplete knowledge, and obsolete thinking. People learn by doing, and that is the deep inner meaning here of this saying, that the facts and information taught in formal education settings prove to be of little value in the real world for most individuals. The value is in engaging with life where the actions count, there is something real at stake, and a real challenge to work on. What one does directly through one’s own hands will be the best teacher by far than anything that can be learned listening to others.