A Professor and a peasant were travelling together. The professor suggested, "To pass time let us tell riddles. Every time you fail to solve a riddle you give me ten rupees, and every time I miss, I'll give you ten rupees."
The Peasant pleaded, "You are a learned man and I am just a peasant. Therefore, when I miss I shall give only five rupees and when you miss you should give me ten rupees."
The Professor agreed and asked the farmer to narrate his riddle.
The farmer asked, "What has three legs walking and two legs flying?"
The professor gave up and handed over ten rupees. Then it was turn of the farmer to explain his own riddle.
The Query : What did the farmer do ?
The Answer : The farmer didn't know it either and handed back five rupees to the professor !!!
The Message : Take no one for granted. What the professor had was knowledge acquired from reading books. The farmer was blessed with native intelligence. The innate ability to think and create is more important than acquiring hollow knowledge.
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