- The Parable of the Blind
A professor is often revered as a great scholar, but in truth, a professor is only a celebrated novice. One is made or called a professor because they have learned so much about a very little matter; because they know more than many others in a very small area. They remain generally ignorant about larger truths of life. The professor of ants might know the names of a thousand species of those crawling creatures that have nothing to do with my next breakfast, yet know nothing about camels and clouds. A professor of American History might be able name all the Pilgrim Fathers and how each died, yet know nothing of the great history of an African village, much less how to fix his faulty phone. For many of his repairs, he is at the mercy of the roadside mechanic with not half as much learning. The professor of pediatrics will desperately need the orthopedic surgeon when he breaks a bone, and the unschooled taxi driver to tell him where to find the critical cobbler. Mighty as Elijah was, he had no answer to Jericho’s lingering problem of common knowledge. It his servant to fix it, with very little apparent effort (2 Kings 2:19-22).
