The Villager and the Spectacles

 There was a local man. He couldn't read or write. He was illiterate in both reading and writing. He frequently noticed folks wearing spectacles while reading books or newspapers. "If I had specs, I can read like these folks," he reasoned. "I need to go to town and get a new set of glasses."

So he went to town one day. He went inside a glasses store. He requested a pair of reading glasses from the merchant. The merchant handed him several sets of spectacles and a book. The villager tried each sight one by one. But he couldn't read anything. He informed the merchant that all of those specs were worthless to him.

The merchant recognized him with suspicion. He then had a glance at the book. It was backwards! "Perhaps you don't know how to read," the shopkeeper said.

"No, I don't," responded the man. "I'd want to get spectacles so that I can read like everyone else. But none of these spectacles allow me to read." When the shopkeeper discovered his illiterate customer's true problem, he struggled to keep his laughing in control.

"My dear friend, you are absolutely uneducated," he stated to the villager. "Spectacles make it difficult to read or write. They just serve to improve your vision. First and foremost, you must learn to read and write."

Moral Lesson

Ignorance leads to blindness.