This is a story about six blind men who were invited to describe an elephant by feeling different parts of its body. The man who felt a leg said the elephant was like a pillar. The one who felt the tail said it was like a rope. The one who felt the trunk said the elephant was like a branch of a tree. The man who explored the ear said the elephant was like a hand fan. The one who moved his hands over the belly said it was like a wall and the one who felt the tusk said the elephant was like a solid pipe. Their teacher told them they were all correct in their descriptions of the elephant yet each had grasped only a part and not the whole!.
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