Christian in the Rough

Back in 1971, television station CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada produced an incredible 130 episodes of a children’s series called The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

Though the show contained mostly comedy sketches, it also offered educational segments like The Professor, featuring unforgettable physicist and television personality Julius Sumner Miller. 

A student and friend of Albert Einstein, Miller had an unrivaled enthusiasm for his subject matter (“Physics is my business”) and for education in general.

As you can see from this clip here, Miller’s passion is undeniable and downright infectious!

Did you catch some of those nuggets?

“Lots of people look. Not everybody sees too well. And lots of people listen. But few hear. So you must see when you look, and hear when you listen.”

What do you think of what he said about intellectual inertia and photophobia?

Too much for a children’s program, you think? I love what he has to say about that in the following clip:

You know, I’ve always struggled to communicate why I blog, until now.

But I feel a certain kinship with The Professor when he says, “My singular purpose is to make everyone reach, and thus their brains are stretched, and their emotions moved, and their spirit touched.”

It’s not that I think I have any superior personal wisdom or insight to share. Rather, it’s the excitement of shared discovery that brings me back to the keyboard time and again. 

Just doing my best to fight intellectual – and spiritual – inertia.

Yours? Well, yes I suppose. But, truth be told, mostly my own.

I’m just pleased to have you along for the ride.

Who has made you reach, stretched your brain, moved your emotions, touched your spirit?

Why do you blog?

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