{"id":172,"date":"2012-03-18T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-06-15T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:07:17","slug":"memory-and-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/03\/18\/memory-and-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory and Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Memory is, as it were, the mind&#8217;s treasure chest, a sure and reliable place of safe-deposit for perceptions.\u00a0 Reason, on\u00a0its part, is that power of the soul which examines and investigates things that make an impression on the senses\u00a0or intellect.&#8221; John of Salisbury, <em>Metalogicon<\/em>, Book 1, Chap. 11,\u00a0trans. Daniel D. McGarry (Philadelphia, 2009), p. 35.<\/p>\n<p>This twelfth-century bishop and teacher imagined that memory\u00a0was the mind&#8217;s treasure chest of perceptions.\u00a0 If we accept this idea then we should have greater appreciation for the importance of education, especially, memorizing facts, events, and interpretations of those facts and events.\u00a0 The next time someone\u00a0tells me that &#8220;rote memorization&#8221; is not important for education, I may quote this passage to that person.\u00a0 Simply put, our memory is the treasure chest from which reason draws the riches of knowledge in order to examine or investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Memory is, as it were, the mind&#8217;s treasure chest, a sure and reliable place of safe-deposit for perceptions.\u00a0 Reason, on\u00a0its part, is that power of the soul which examines and investigates things that make an impression on the senses\u00a0or intellect.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/03\/18\/memory-and-reason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-of-salisbury","category-medieval","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}