It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. - Jim Harrison

I suspect that at its best your education’s main motive is to fuel your curiosity and teach you how to find out things for yourself. This is adequately simpleminded to cover the situation. Nothing much is remembered without the emotion of curiosity. Even your dogs and cats are full of it. You are unlikely to feel emotion for material unless your teacher has it. The educationists seem to think in terms of methodical steps but a teacher brimming with passion for the subject is what actually works.

Birthdays are [soul chasers,] ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask [the usual question[, “Qué pasa, baby?”
(The Raw and the Cooked)

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.