Almost every visitor will misunderstand the teachings on IDEAFARM.COM before receiving guidance.

The most important function of the student / teacher protocol is that it enables the teacher to iteratively guide the student in his/her effort to discover the intended meaning. Although the teachings on IDEAFARM.COM explain the poem, they are each like the poem in that each teaching will likely be misunderstood initially. They are concise statements of subtle ideas, and they are not intended to, nor can they, stand alone. They are intended as conversation openers for unguided dialog between students of the form, "What you you think he means by this?", as well as guided classroom discussion.