Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — The Parable of the Ten Ideas. [ARTICLE]

The Parable of the Ten Ideas.

A teacher put ten facts into a boy’s mind, and when he returned a few months later, to see if the facts were still there, he was pleased to find that the boy remembered them. He paid the boy a high compliment on the possession of a mind that could hold knowledge so securely and deliver it up on demand with such prompt and beautiful exactness! Another teacher gave another boy ten facts, and some time after he also tested the boy to see what had happened. He found that from the ten he had given the boy there had grown a large numbei of other facts. He made no further Inquiry, for he was not Interested to know whether the facts he had given him were still there or not He saw that the purpose for which they had been put in the boy’s mind was working out all right, and there his interest ended.