Meditative analysis of Genesis 2: God's personal investment in creating humanity

Genesis 2
I believe that learning is more important than teaching. That is not to suggest that teaching is not important—but the purpose of teaching is to facilitate learning, not just to teach as an end in and of itself. In Genesis 2, God shows that He is invested in His creation and He wants man to be happy. How to obtain happiness after the fall of man, however, is the key point that we all must face today. To be fair, obtaining that happiness is something we all must learn. Can we do it without a teacher? It is very likely that, no, we cannot. Yet, if we devote ourselves to learning, we can find the way to God in spite of the obstacles we face.
Every teacher, moreover, is a learner; and every learner is ultimately bound to be a teacher. Knowledge is nothing if not communicated. Socrates was believed to be the wisest man alive back in his day—but he refused to accept the fact that he was the wisest. He went about asking people so many questions about how they lived and what they believed the good to be that he eventually annoyed the State to the point where they charged him with corruption of the youth and ordered him to drink the Hemlock juice. He defended himself by saying that he was not teaching but rather trying to learn. He was trying to show the Oracle of Delphi that he was not the wisest man alive (Plato, 2007). He believed himself to be a student and with his students he would strike up conversations that would get everyone in the room thinking. Socrates, if he was anything, was simply a guide—like Virgil is to Dante (n.d.) in the Divine Comedy.
God is like a guide for Adam and Eve too. He creates them and gives them Paradise and gives them instructions that they might live happily and peacefully. Once they are banished for their sin of disobedience, God begins to teach them and their children in different ways. God instructs everyone in unique ways—so in that sense we are all learners and God is the ultimate teacher. For this reason I say it is more important that we be learners because that way we can hear what God is trying to tell us. Sometimes God speaks to us through others. Sometimes he uses actual teachers in a classroom, or friends, or works of art, or experience, or stories the way Christ used parables to teach His disciples. Nonetheless, we are all learners.
As learners, each of us has a duty to listen. Teachers, too, have a duty to listen—just as Socrates listened to those around him in order to see how they and he were defining the good. Christ, too, listened to those He encountered and He was the ultimate teacher. Regardless of whether one views oneself as a learner or a teacher, listening is an imperative. For learners, it is an absolute must. How many missed the call to become disciples of Christ because they were not listening? How many times in our lives have we felt that we missed an opportunity to really learn something because we were too busy or too distracted or not willing to put ourselves in the right frame of mind for whatever reason?
Indeed, the link that unites learners and teachers is the act of listening. Listening is what everyone must do in order to hear the Words of God. Listening requires silence; it requires spending time away from distractions and giving time to thoughtfulness and meditation. It is said of Socrates that he could spend an entire day deep in thought, not moving for 24 hours straight but simply standing and meditating and thinking. Perhaps that is one reason he was considered the wisest: he was listening to what the knowledge God was placing inside him was saying. And that is why we must all consider ourselves learners—because God is the teacher.
References
Dante. (n.d.). Divine Comedy. Retrieved from
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/
Plato. (2007). Death of Socrates. Retrieved from
http://rocket.csusb.edu/~tmoody/Apology,%20plain,%20new%20trans.pdf