Hurdle

Maybe one little story of PT is illuminating:

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Shortly after our medical school was established, PT returned from England and took up an academic post in the Department of Anatomy.

That's a curious arrangement: PT was a cell biologist by training and could do embryology, but his major work in the department was to teach us gross anatomy - which he knew hardly anything.

How did he get around the problem ?

As Albert Einstein once said, in human activity, the longest distance between two points is often a straight line. Alas, he chose the most simple - but also the most difficult - way: He bought a volume of the good old Gray's Anatomy a few months before the term began, and finished reading (and reciting !) it during the summer holiday.

Every time when I wished to complaint there was not enough time and too many details to remember, his eyes seemed to say: I can do it; how about you ?