Monday, April 28, 2008

I was waiting in queue to use the OPAC system in the library.
I was behind a little girl who was using one finger to type a book title of almost 6 words.
She didn’t realized that she got the location of search wrong and many other specs wrong too.
But I thought, “Let her learn first.”

Right after she clicked the button ENTER. As expected, ‘DATA ERROR’ popped on the screen.
That’s where I stepped in and explained to her.
“This isn’t google. You need to use keywords under the right category…” as I shamelessly posed smarter than her.
As I widened down the search, the little sweet girl very softly tapped my arm and gently said,
“Centipedes and Millipedes are worms not bug.”

When we teach, we all learn together.

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