The Clip of Time

X - Birth of a Friendship

"Later dismissal, the three of you need to stay. Ire-report natin sa headmaster ang ginawa ni Jack. Sabihan mo na rin Gene...", as she looks at Gene straight in her eyes, "... kay Prisca na manatili dito mamayang dismissal. I need to talk to her."

"Miss Jazmine, how about Jack?", Aldwine abruptly asked. "We'll let him go this time. We'll let the headmaster know about dito muna, and then we should talk to Jack.", she said as she looks at them. 

They all went inside the classroom and Mrs. Jazmine started the class. She didn't really put too much attention to Jack bearing in mind of what Aldwine and Micky showed her. She is their subject teachers at Math, English, and Values Education. 

"We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false beliefs and the fatally wrong actions which they lead to In short, sloppy practices of belief-formation are ethically wrong because as social beings when we believe something, the stakes are very high.", said their classmate that was called to recite a passage.

They were having a lesson about William Kingdon Clifford, he is not in the pantheon of great philosophers perhaps because his life was cut short at the age of 33. 

"The most natural objection to this first argument is that while it might be true...", as Mrs. Jazmine walk down between group 1 and group 2 columns, "... that some of our beliefs do lead to actions that can be devastating for others."

The class is divided into sections of such. Some are sleeping at the back, some are talking to each other, some are staring outside the window, some are looking at Mrs. Jazmine acting like they are listening but their mind isn't, and the other half are still focused on the lecture of Mrs. Jazmine.

"No real belief however trifling and fragmentary it may seem, is ever truly insignificant; it prepares us to receive more of its like, confirms those which resembled it before, and weakens others; and so gradually it lays a stealthy train in our inmost thoughts, which may someday explode into overt action, and leave its stamp upon our character.", recited the student Mrs. Jazmine called to read the 2nd passage.

The lesson they're having somewhat related to what is currently happening, but Micky didn't have enough energy to listen attentively and put inside his brain the passages his classmates are reading. 

"What he tells us is that careless believing turns us into easy prey for fake-news pedlars, conspiracy theorists and charlatans. Epistemic alertness is a much more previous virtue today than it ever was, since the need to sift through conflicting information has exponentially increased, and the risk of becoming a vessel of credulity is just a few taps of a smartphone away.", advised Mrs. Jazmine.

As Mrs. Jazmine is scanning the students inside her class, she saw Gene raising her hand, "Yes, Gene?", she called her. "Miss Jazmine, what is credulity?", she asked. 

"Credulity is a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true."

"Thank you, Miss.", Gene responded and sat. These phrases passed through Micky's ear, making his mind open to the topic and his head more focused on their adviser. As the lesson goes on, one passage Micky kept in mind is

"Believing without evidence is always morally wrong."

when he was called to recite it.

*bell rings

"Okay class, that will be for today's lesson. I will leave you a quote I learned just today...", she said as she looked at Jack doodling someone's chair from the back, "... fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.". Jack didn't hear what Mrs. Jazmine said, he just kept on doodling something at the back of the chair of someone else.