Quote of the Week

Last week I'm teaching Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse." I'm helping a group of kids in the back of the room understand a question I wrote, and it's a bit noisy while pairs of students discuss and answer their questions, and sneak in some socializing.

So a girl asks me why the poem is so difficult to understand, and I say something like "The poet wrote this about two hundred years ago."

She looks at me in surprise and exclaims, "The Pope wrote this?"

Of course everyone around her laughed, including myself.