{"id":3552,"date":"2018-11-13T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2018-11-15T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:23:57","slug":"sto-114-the-vets-apprenticethe-guru-and-blind-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/further-information-and-teaching-resources-secondary\/concepts\/sto-114-the-vets-apprenticethe-guru-and-blind-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"STO-114 \u2013 The Vet\u2019s Apprentice (the guru and blind faith)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/STO-114-sec.doc\">STO-114-sec<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This story illustrates some of the problems in blind following. It could also illustrate the need for teachers to explain what they are doing and why!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One day a vet was called to see a horse that had a huge swelling on its neck. The vet travelled with his apprentice and upon reaching the farm carefully inspected the horse. He then took a hammer and struck it violently against the lump. Almost miraculously, the swelling disappeared and the horse retuned to normal health.<\/p>\n<p>Some weeks later, the vet\u2019s apprentice was called out urgently for another horse with a similar problem. Upon arriving, he noticed that the horse had a swelling in its throat. Remembering the example of his master, the apprentice asked the owner for a hammer. He beat the swelling as hard as he could; the horse screeched in pain, fell to the ground and a few minutes later died writhing in agony. The owner was furious and the trainee vet took to his heels.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived back at the practice, the vet had returned. The apprentice narrated all that had happened and expressed his shock that his treatment had failed. \u201cBut I did exactly as you did, why didn\u2019t it work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vet replied, \u201cDon\u2019t just copy me blindly. The horse we were attending last week had swallowed a watermelon\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STO-114-sec This story illustrates some of the problems in blind following. It could also illustrate the need for teachers to explain what they are doing and why! One day a vet was called to see a horse that had a huge swelling on its neck. The vet travelled with his apprentice and upon reaching the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}