[laughter] the student could not distinguish martin luther from lee trevino or a park ranger, i guess. but she remembered the story. did not remember much of anything else. that is where we are. we tend to remember stories. that is why jesus told as many parable's, which illustrated his point. stories tell us a lot about ourselves. the stories that society tells tells us a lot about society. the concerns about society, the principles of that society. we can discern those from the stories. you know, we get a lot from our stories. we get our heroes from our stories. our balance. our lessons. -- our villains. it has become a trend in academia to downplay the idea of learning lessons from history. there is good reason for that. it has been abused, as we talked about here. sometimes people will act as though history repeats itself exactly, and therefore you can take a lesson from one time and apply it to another. of course, that is not true. but still, you are learning at least general principles from history. i think it is very doable and important. so we get all of these things from our