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    The document discusses a fable about six blind men encountering an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the elephant - its side, tusk, trunk, knee, ear, and tail. Based on their limited perspectives, each man describes the elephant differently. The moral is that having only a partial view can lead to incorrect conclusions, and it is important to consider multiple perspectives to gain a holistic understanding. The poet draws a parallel to religious debates where participants argue without fully understanding each other's viewpoints.

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    The document discusses a fable about six blind men encountering an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the elephant - its side, tusk, trunk, knee, ear, and tail. Based on their limited perspectives, each man describes the elephant differently. The moral is that having only a partial view can lead to incorrect conclusions, and it is important to consider multiple perspectives to gain a holistic understanding. The poet draws a parallel to religious debates where participants argue without fully understanding each other's viewpoints.

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    The document discusses a fable about six blind men encountering an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the elephant - its side, tusk, trunk, knee, ear, and tail. Based on their limited perspectives, each man describes the elephant differently. The moral is that having only a partial view can lead to incorrect conclusions, and it is important to consider multiple perspectives to gain a holistic understanding. The poet draws a parallel to religious debates where participants argue without fully understanding each other's viewpoints.

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    Activity The Six Blind Men and The Elephant

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    Activity: The 6 Blind Men & the Elephant

    Answer the following questions after watching the video and reading the poem below.
    1. Did any of the blind men give the correct answer? Why or why not?
    — There's no one's got the correct answer because they didn't touch everything that would help
    them identify the elephant. The first blind man said that the elephant looks like a wall, the
    second blind man said it looks like a spear, and others said it looks like a snake, a big three, a
    fan and a rope which are all far from what the elephant really looked like.

    2. In the context of the elephant story, what do you think is a holistic perspective? What is a
    partial point of view?
    — In the story, I think the holistic perspective there is when the little girl said to those blind men
    that they didn't feel the whole part of the animal because they just felt and touched a part of it.
    The partial point of view is when the six blind men tried to identify what the elephant really
    looked like but all of them didn't get the correct answer because they didn’t touch every corner
    of the elephant.

    3. What is the importance of a holistic point of view as pointed out in the poem Six Blind Men
    and the Elephant by the poet John Godfrey Saxe?
    — The importance of holistic point of view is to always look for a bigger picture, look at all
    aspects of the given problem or situation to avoid misleading.

    4. In the last stanza, John Godfrey Saxe related the legend to the religious wars during his
    time. What do you think is Saxe trying to say in this poem?
    — In my own understanding, He wants to point out that things should be studied as a whole
    and not just a sum of their parts. Be an open minded person and don't be a foolish one who
    loves to argue.

    THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT


    A HINDOO FABLE
    I.
    IT was six men of Indostan
    To learning much inclined,
    Who went to see the Elephant
    (Though all of them were blind),
    That each by observation
    Might satisfy his mind.
    II.
    The First approached the Elephant,
    And happening to fall
    Against his broad and sturdy side,
    At once began to bawl:
    "God bless me!—but the Elephant
    Is very like a wall!"
    III.

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    The Second, feeling of the tusk,
    Cried: "Ho!—what have we here
    So very round and smooth and sharp?
    To me 't is mighty clear
    This wonder of an Elephant
    Is very like a spear!"
    IV.
    The Third approached the animal,
    And happening to take
    The squirming trunk within his hands,
    Thus boldly up and spake:
    "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
    Is very like a snake!"
    V.
    The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
    And felt about the knee.
    "What most this wondrous beast is like
    Is mighty plain," quoth he;
    "'T is clear enough the Elephant
    Is very like a tree!"
    VI.
    The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
    Said: "E'en the blindest man
    Can tell what this resembles most;
    Deny the fact who can,
    This marvel of an Elephant
    Is very like a fan!"
    VII.
    The Sixth no sooner had begun
    About the beast to grope,
    Than, seizing on the swinging tail
    That fell within his scope,
    "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
    Is very like a rope!"
    VIII.
    And so these men of Indostan
    Disputed loud and long,
    Each in his own opinion
    Exceeding stiff and strong,
    Though each was partly in the right,
    And all were in the wrong!
    MORAL.
    So, oft in theologic wars
    The disputants, I ween,

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    Rail on in utter ignorance
    Of what each other mean,
    And prate about an Elephant
    Not one of them has seen!

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