General: The Blind Men & the Elephant |
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| One of my favorite fables and, unfortunately, still very relevant in today's world.
The man with the tusk states that an elephant is like a spear. The man with the tail argues that the elephant is like a rope. The man with the trunk says, no, its like a snake. The man with the side thinks its more like a wall. But the man with the leg is sure the elephant is like a tree. The flaw in all their reasoning is that speculating on the WHOLE from to few FACTS can lead to VERY LARGE errors in judgment. |
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| The illustration is by D'Aulaire and the poem by John Godfrey Saxe.
From "Childcraft; in fourteen volumes" vol 2 Storytelling and Other Poems, published by Field Enterprises, Inc, Chicago, Copyright 1949. Page 122-23 |
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