{"id":39319,"date":"2020-05-08T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39319"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:22:33","slug":"philosophy-quotes-to-a-person-with-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-quotes-to-a-person-with-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: quotes: &#8220;To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about philosophy: the tutor reflects on a famous quote&#8217;s meaning.<\/h2>\n<p><blockquote>To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.<br\/>-Mark Twain<\/blockquote><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, I heard this quote, for the first time, two days ago. I didn&#8217;t know whose it was &#8211; someone just casually uttered it in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose, in a great number of cases, the quote is true: people like to play to their strengths. They like to apply the skills they already have, rather than looking for (or developing) a different tool from the one in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden behind the words seems to be advice &#8211; from Mark Twain, no less.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/545616-to-a-man-with-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a\">goodreads.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about philosophy: the tutor reflects on a famous quote&#8217;s meaning. To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.-Mark Twain Believe it or not, I heard this quote, for the first time, two days ago. I didn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-quotes-to-a-person-with-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy: quotes: &#8220;To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39325,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319\/revisions\/39325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}