To teach a genius is not to tame him — it is to preside over the symposium of his soul. The mentor’s task is not command but containment — to host the dialogue between ambition and direction, chaos and order, hubris and pathos. Aristotle was just that for Alexander the Great: the rational father seated within his inner symposium. He did not pacify his daimon; he refined it — The way a master channels the energy, frequency and vibration of their knowledge, and passes it on for the student.

To teach a genius is not to tame him — it is to preside over the symposium of his soul. The mentor’s task is not command but containment — to host the dialogue between ambition and direction, chaos and order, hubris and pathos. Aristotle was just that for Alexander the Great: the rational father seated within his inner symposium. He did not pacify his daimon; he refined it — The way a master channels the energy, frequency and vibration of their knowledge, and passes it on for the student.