The Animal School

The animals got together in the forest one day and decided to start a school.  There was a rabbit, a bird, a squirrel, a fish and an eel, and they formed a board of directors.  The rabbit insisted that running be in the curriculum.  The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum.  The fish insisted that swimming had to be in the curriculum and the squirrel said that perpendicular tree climbing was absolutely necessary to the curriculum.  They put all of these things together and wrote a curriculum guide.  Then they insisted that all of the animals take all of the subjects

Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a real problem for him.  He kept falling over backward.  Pretty soon he got to be sort of brain damaged and could not run anymore.  He found that instead of making an A in running he was making a C, and off course he always made an F in Perpendicular climbing.  The bird was really beautiful at fling but when it came to burrowing in the ground, he could not do so well.  He kept breaking his back & wings.   Pretty soon he was making a C in flying as well as an F in burrowing and he had a hell of a time with perpendicular tree climbing.

Finally the animal that ended up being valedictorian of the class was a mentally retarded eel that did everything halfway.   But the educators were happy because everybody was taking all of the subjects and it was call a “broad based education”.

We laugh at this, but that’s how it is.  It is what is happening to you.  We really are trying to make everybody the same as everybody else; hence destroying everybody’s potential for being himself.  Intelligence dies in imitating others.