Thursday, October 23, 2008

Elephant

One day, somewhere in the world, a teacher asked to his students if they had ever seen an elephant. Subsequently to students' negative answers, the teacher decided to bring them to a special circular building where they could watch an alive elephant. In that three-floor building, were many small rooms and a shelter in the courtyard. Each student occupied a private room to watch the elephant that was in the shelter. Also, everyone was assigned to draw the elephant for a further discussion in class. After they got back to school, the teacher told the students to share their sketches with peers. All the students noticed that their drawings were differents from each other. In fact, depending on his room, each student had a limitted angle of view. As a result, one student drew only the trunk of the elephant whereas another one drew the tail, and so on. Consequently, they fought each other because everyone thought that he was right and the others were wrong. At the end, the teacher showed them a nice picture of an elephant. He taught the students that in the world, each person is unique. We are all moulded depending on our culture, and education. We should tolerate the differences and practice the law of LOVE.

2 comments:

kadra said...

Every one has differnt point of view according to my knowledge every one thinks differently but also the actions acting out is dependent who you want compete with it.

Hanife said...

Woow,
What a nice story Jean,
Thanks for sharing:)