Wood Cutter's story part 3..

Wood Cutter’s worry -

The wood cutter was unhappy about situation but he couldn’t think about anything partly due to his old age and partly due to his own attitude, as for all these years he was buying the same old excuses. He never tried to separate the good ones from the okay ones and he was responsible for the casual upbringing. He treated all of them equal and imbibed a great sense of democracy among all of them. He never rewarded the bright ones; he never applied pressure on anybody to perform better. His initial belief was to bank upon the consciousness of the individuals. This was not all. He was worried about another reason also. Due to the success of his school there were many other schools cropping up at a blistering pace in the nearby villages and it was on him to make his kids perform. All these relatively new schools were growing at rapid pace and he was sure that some of those schools have brighter and sharper minds. So he decided to test his students and called all of them for what we call now a meeting.

The meeting started with a speech where they were informed that each one of them has to spend three months into the wild. They were asked to study the jungle and collect whatever they can during these 3 months. As I mentioned before, the jungle was vast and there were opportunities for each one of them to explore as much as they can. Now, wood cutter was happy that finally he gave some good task to his children and was so happy about the whole thing that he decided to take a vacation.

3 Months into the wild -
Months went by and the final day came close. People started coming back from the jungle. Each one deposited their heaps of wood in the center of the field where they all assembled. Some heaps were bigger, some were smaller and some were tiny. Some bigger heaps were rotten, some smaller ones were really bad wood and the tinier ones at the center of the field were different from others. The looked dull and muddy.