About This Video
Once, there was a minister who had a foolish son. Hoping to improve him, the minister sent the boy to a wise scholar and said, “Please teach him manners and knowledge, so that he may become intelligent.” The scholar accepted the task and spent a long time educating the boy. But no matter how much he taught, nothing seemed to work. Finally, worn out and frustrated, the scholar sent a message to the boy’s father: “This child will never become wise, and in trying, he has nearly driven me mad!” Saadi ends the story with these verses: When the essence is noble, nurture leaves its mark. But no polish can make bright iron of base nature. Wash a dog in the seven seas it will only emerge filthier. Take a donkey to Mecca with Jesus upon it it will still return a donkey.