We are curious beings by nature. We went from surviving by hunting and gathering, to staying in one place thanks to the fact that we learned to work the land. Due to this, the human being began to have free time, to think and imagine more than before and discovered that curiosity is essential for his life. We listened, learned and eventually wrote what we wanted to save for the future.
Unbelievably, the puzzles are almost as old as the writing, and one of the oldest in the world will challenge you to discover something fundamental. Are you ready?
A house based on the foundation like the heavens.
A house covered with a veil like a secret box.
A house with a base like a goose.
One enters blind.
He leaves him watching.
Do you know what it is?
If you don’t have it yet, maybe this shortened version can help you a bit more.
There’s a house. One goes in blind and comes out seeing. What is?
were you able to solve it? Here goes the answer.
A school
Today’s schools are very different from how they were thousands of years ago, but it is undoubtedly the value of education, the importance of knowledge for a person, which undoubtedly transforms us from blind to sighted.
Learn from our elders, read books that narrate the history of the world, learn exact sciences and find the magic of numbers and what they can do in our immediate reality, understand the reason for being and find meaning in the world; all this and more is included in what we can find in a school, all this and more we can learn throughout our lives.
Education is essential at any stage of our lives. Although we officially comply with the mandatory degrees, learning is in us, as the ancient Sumerian riddles already said. The one you just read belongs to a compilation of 25 riddles that EI Gordon rescued from ancient cuneiform tablets dating from the fourth millennium BC
If you want an equally beautiful reference but closer to our times, you can keep this beautiful phrase from the tenth muse, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz:
I do not study to know more, but to ignore less
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