A mother wished to enter her five-year-old daughter in a kindergarten, but was told the minimum age was six. The mother insisted that the child’s superior intelligence would enable her to pass any test for six-year-olds.
The school principal was skeptical. “We’ll see about that,” he said. Then turning to the child, he instructed, “Just say whatever comes into your mind.”
”Mother,” said the five-year-old, “does he mean that I should address him in grammatically correct and logical sentences, or does he want purely irrelevant words?”
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