{"id":895,"date":"2009-09-28T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/09\/28\/four-types-of-learners\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:41:11","slug":"four-types-of-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/four-types-of-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Types of Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mishnah:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are four traits among those who sit before the sages:      <br \/>a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sifter.       <br \/>A <strong>sponge<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause he sponges everything up;       <br \/>a <strong>funnel<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause he takes in on one side and lets out on the other;       <br \/>a <strong>strainer<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor he lets out the wine and keeps in the lees;       <br \/>and a <strong>sifter<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor he lets out the flour and keeps in the finest flour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftn1_3506\" name=\"_ftnref1_3506\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Avot 5:15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mishnah: There are four traits among those who sit before the sages: a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sifter. A sponge\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause he sponges everything up; a funnel\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause he takes in on one side and lets out on the other; a strainer\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor he lets out the wine and keeps in the lees;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/four-types-of-learners\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}