{"id":5777,"date":"2017-02-14T05:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/how-little-they-remember\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T05:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:16:17","slug":"how-little-they-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/how-little-they-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"How Little They Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man hereabouts with a passion for chess got my number. We've become friends. <\/span><\/p>\n

He told me he took a course in the philosophy of religion way back when.  I pressed him on details. All he remembers is the old professor walking into the room, flipping a switch, and intoning "Let there be light!"<\/span><\/p>\n

The chess player's forgetfulness reminds me of a story.<\/span><\/p>\n

An eager young nun and a wise old nun were discussing teaching. The young nun was waxing enthusiastic over the privilege, but also the responsibility, of forming young minds. The old nun took a glass of water, inserted her forefinger, and agitated the water. Suddenly she removed her finger and the water immediately returned to its quiescent state.<\/p>\n

"So much for the forming of young minds," said the older and wiser one.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A man hereabouts with a passion for chess got my number. We've become friends.  He told me he took a course in the philosophy of religion way back when.  I pressed him on details. All he remembers is the old professor walking into the room, flipping a switch, and intoning "Let there be light!" The … Continue reading “How Little They Remember”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,206,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-memory","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}