Sometimes all you need to understand about a truth is enough to enable you to fully understand it later. Teachers sometimes try to teach too much. We seek to cram into the minds of our students “everything in the room” when all we must truly do is teach enough to get the student to “hold the door to the room open.” As life passes, which is to say “as time passes,” the student will encounter each of the items in that room, but the operative word is “each” instead of “every.” “Each” requires a succession of time, “every” happens in an instance. The teacher’s job is to make the way for “each,” not to cram the mind with “every.”
