A teacher asked her student: If I gave you an Apple then another apple and another, how many apples would you have?
The student replied confidently: four apples!
The teacher then repeated the question assuming that the child did not hear well. The child calculated again trying to find another answer, but unfortunately the student answered again: four.
The teacher got frustrated but she did not give up on him. So she asked him the same question replacing apples by oranges. She said: If I gave you an orange and another orange and another, how many would you have?
The child replied: three oranges ...
This encouraged the teacher to ask the student about the apples again. But the student said: four apples!
The teacher got angry and yelled: oh my God, what's the difference between both? Can you tell me?
He fearfully replied: because I already have one apple in my bag!
The student replied confidently: four apples!
The teacher then repeated the question assuming that the child did not hear well. The child calculated again trying to find another answer, but unfortunately the student answered again: four.
The teacher got frustrated but she did not give up on him. So she asked him the same question replacing apples by oranges. She said: If I gave you an orange and another orange and another, how many would you have?
The child replied: three oranges ...
This encouraged the teacher to ask the student about the apples again. But the student said: four apples!
The teacher got angry and yelled: oh my God, what's the difference between both? Can you tell me?
He fearfully replied: because I already have one apple in my bag!
"When someone gives you an answer different from what you expect, do not judge it to be wrong directly. Perhaps you misunderstood something or you missed to take other factors into consideration. Listen carefully to understand what the other means and never think that you only own the right answer. You never know, you might have really missed something!!"
it's really a nice story, and the advice beyond it is the most valuable! it's important to allow the other part to explain his point of view before judging it's validity.
ReplyDeleteNice.. That's an evidence that behind every answer we say there's reason.. we many times misunderstand others, just because we think that they think as we do and neglecting that every person has his own way of thinking that differentiate him from otehrs.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. for any answer there always a reason for that before we a say for any one wrong or right we first look to his/her reason then we assess his/her answer.
ReplyDeleteThis is why it is important to look why the students give wrong reasons, and not judge them directly. As a matter of fact, i think this student is actually smart, as the teacher asked him how many apples would you have, and not how many apples would i have given you!!
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