It was the time when academic year begins for the nursery school and teacher handles classes for standard-I students.
Teacher: Dear students !!! You all have been promoted from kinder garden. Its time for you all to learn many new things. So I begin my class with mathematics.
Students: (With a wonderful smile listening excitedly)
Teacher: An arithmetic operation includes Addition, Subtraction………..………..………..(Explained much about all these calculations. Out of curiosity to know their understanding teacher fired a question to a last bench student-obviously last bench seaters are the victims because of elevation :-) )I am giving you two apples. Again I would like to give you two more. Tell me how much do you have with you now?
Student: (After thinking for some time… answered) Five
Teacher: (Repeats the question again and expecting the correct answer this time)
Student: (Answered tenaciously) Five
Teacher: (After some time …) Tell me which is your favorite fruit?
Student: Mango
Teacher: Fine. I will ask you a question. If you answer this, then I will give you a mango.
Student: :-)
Teacher: (Repeats the same question with mango instead of apple and expecting for the correct answer)
Student: (With no qualm…. answers) Four
Teacher: (Felt very happy and appreciated him. Teacher again triggered the same question with apple instead of mango this time and waiting for the answer anxiously)
Student: (Answers again as…) Five
Teacher: (Got annoyed and beaten up him nicely) What made you think like this?
Student: You gave me four and I already have one with me in my lunch bag. So it’s five...
Teacher: (Shocked)
Whenever we question others we look for the answers only in one angle. We are not seeing things from others point of view. It is because we look at the truth through the screen of an intuition.Misunderstanding causes allegation and quarrel finally breaks the relationship even. To avoid misunderstanding we “Comprehend ourselves to Comprehend others better”
Here who misunderstood actually…Teacher or the student???
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