Quote of the Day #2 - September 14, 2010

I assigned my students a poem by John Godfrey Saxe -- about six blind men, an elephant, and the power of observation. They had to read the poem and then answer a few questions that related the poem to the scientific method. Before we began to discuss the questions together, I asked them what they thought of the poem.

Several students raised their hands calmly. I called on them one by one.

Student #1: It was weird, yo.

Student #2: It was butt.

Student #3: (quite pensively) Well, it was definitely weird, but I wouldn't say it was butt.