One day the animals in the forest gathered and decided to open a school. Among them were a rabbit, a bird, a squirrel, a fish and an eel, and they formed a board of directors. The rabbit insisted that running be included in the training program. The bird insisted that flying be included in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming be included in the program, and the squirrel said that vertical tree climbing was absolutely necessary. They put all these things together and came up with a class schedule. Then they began to insist that all animals study all subjects.
Although the rabbit got straight A's in running, he had difficulty climbing trees vertically. He kept falling on his back. Pretty soon he suffered some kind of brain damage and could no longer run. It turned out that instead of an A in running, he gets a C, and in vertical climbing, of course, he always gets a 1.
The bird flew very well, but when it had to dig holes in the ground, it could not do it well. She constantly broke her beak and wings. Very soon she began to get C's in flying, A's in digging, and had hellish difficulties in vertical climbing.
In the end, the top performing animal in the class was a mentally retarded eel who did everything halfway. But the founders were happy because everyone studied all subjects, and this was called “broad general education.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru