The gardener leaned down, frowning at his plant.
— Why are you so weak? I gave you sun, I gave you water… and still you don’t grow!
The plant answered calmly:
— Weak? You kept pulling me from the soil to check how I was growing.
The gardener protested:
— Well, I had to measure the roots somehow!
The plant smirked:
— Sure… except that time you replanted me upside down. I guess you didn’t even know which end was which.
Schools often do the same. Testing children is like digging them up again and again — exposing what should stay hidden, disturbing what should stay rooted.
And sometimes, by measuring the wrong end, the whole system turns learning upside down.
Learning needs nurture, not digging.
Patience, not measuring.
And definitely NO TESTING.
