Saturday, 15 March 2014

Gandhi and his professor

There is this funny thing that I read in the newspapers on Wednesday. When Gandhi was studying in England there used to be this one professor who hated Gandhi as he didn't bow down in front of him. Once when Gandhi sat next to him on the lunch table the professor told Gandhi,"Mr Gandhi, you do not realise that a pig and a bird do not sit together to eat ."
“You do not worry professor, I’ll fly away,”  Gandhi replied and proceeded towards another table. Mr Peters resolved to take his revenge at the next test, but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all the questions. Mr. Peters asked him: “Mr Gandhi, if you are walking down the street and find a package, and within it there is a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money; which one will you take?” Gandhi responded, “The one with the money, of course”.
Mr Peters said, “I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom, don’t you think?” “Each one takes what one doesn’t have”, responded Gandhi indifferently.Mr Peters, already hysteric, wrote the word, “idiot”, on the exam-sheet and gave it to Gandhi.  He then told his professor: “Mr Peters, you signed the sheet, but you did not give me the grade.”

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