Open Access Opinion

Why Should We Learn to Swim?

Gabriel Miranda Nava*

Chief of Neurology of the Hospital Center of the Presidential General Staff, Mexico

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Received Date: September 01, 2018;  Published Date: November 26, 2018

Abstract

There is an anecdote in which an intellectual was being transported in a small boat by a person of scarce academic resources, when trying to mock this poor man he asks “young ... do you know? Of mathematics? And the poor boatman answers NO, and the unfriendly scholar tells him “because he thinks you’ve lost 30% of your life, later he asks him if he knew about philosophy and when he answered with a second refusal, the scholar in question tells him that he had he lost another 30% of his life, and he maintained it until suddenly the boatman, smiling, asked him, “Sir, do you?.

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