Paraphrasing the Canon

Paraphrasing the Canon

The job of the teacher is not to transmit, unchanged, the words of the tradition.   The job of the teacher is paraphrasing, putting the words of texts in contexts that provoke, confuse, delight, and startle the audience, all while keeping the original kernel intact.

(Parables leave out details but maintain the point.)  

As people evolve, as cultures evolve, as the environment evolves, our words must evolve.   This, of course, is bound to create some resentment.  More on that later.