Teacher

There was a man who spent his life, or much of it, trying to get people- whoever would listen- to understand something of apparently great importance, but noone could ever seem to quite understand what he was trying to tell them.
He would as likely end up gesturing wildly and exclaim in a fury of exasperation: "But it's all so simple!"
"What is?"
"Ahh, you have to see it for yourself! I can't tell you."
"And why not?" they would laugh; though, as an acute observer might have observed, with perhaps a little less self-confidence than the tone might suggest.
"Because if I told you, then you'd think you'd understood, and that would be worse again. At least now you've no such illusions."
The naivety. If he could have divined the depth of their illusions...though perhaps he really was better off not glancing into that snake-pit.