The real sting here isn't that lectures fail—we all know that—but that Coelho is pointing at something darker: our hunger to *skip* the learning itself. We'd rather receive the answer than earn the understanding, which means we avoid the very friction that builds wisdom. Watch a parent try to warn a teenager about heartbreak, or a mentor watch someone repeat their own mistakes, and you see the painful truth: the person must feel the weight of consequence themselves, not borrow someone else's cautionary tale. What makes this observation worth keeping is that it indicts not just bad teaching, but our own impatience with growth.