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That evening, when the
father came home from work, he was very surprised because the children did
not want to listen to his tale but wanted to tell him their own. That day
they had been to a museum and now both were talking at the same time.
History of the technical
monkey
Their teacher at school
took them to a special museum. At the entrance, there was a big sign with an
inscription “history of the technical monkey”. When they entered, a guide
greeted them.
“My dear children!
Welcome in the museum! I will show you everything and tell you the history of
the technical monkey,” he began. “Have you ever been to a museum before?” The
children looked at him with big eyes and open mouth and the expression on
their face made it obvious to the guide that they would listen to him very
attentively.
“Once upon a time, there
were many tribes or better say bigger families of monkeys in all parts of the
land,” and he pointed to a big map that was leaning against the wall at forty-five
degrees. Many valleys and mountains, rivers and flatlands, forests and
grasslands surrounded by a big ocean could be seen on the map.
“At the beginning, the
monkeys lived on trees and collected the fruit they found on them,” and the
guide showed the pupils a picture. “But when it rained or in winter when it
snowed, the monkeys always got wet and were cold.” Some pupils put their
notebooks above their heads and imitated the shivering because of cold.
The guide smiled and
continued, “so one day, one of the monkeys decided to climb down onto the
ground because he had discovered a cave.” Another picture on another wall
showed a monkey sitting in a cave.
“At that time, when they
saw lightning, they were afraid and hid in the cave. They thought that some
kind of ghost wanted to hurt them. Nevertheless, once, a thunderbolt struck a
tree and it caught fire. The most curious monkey went out and looked at the
fire a bit closer. Of course, first he burnt himself, but then, he put a
torch on the ground and laid some more wood on it.” The pupils began to
laugh, one blew his hands and they looked at another picture. “Then he took a
torch to the entrance of the cave and made a campfire there.” Everybody
imagined sitting in the cave and warming themselves at the campfire.
“Of course, there were
not enough caves for everybody, so one had the idea to build a kind of roof
for himself. First, these roofs looked like tents and then they resembled to
houses.” The pupils looked around them and imagined what a house meant at
that time. “When they built a chimney into the house, they had tamed the fire
and it wasn’t a ghost or holy soul anymore.”
Suddenly, he put his
finger onto his lips. The pupils thought he wanted to tell them to be quiet.
“Our lips and our mouth! What do we use our mouth for?” he asked them. “To
speak!” everybody shouted. “That’s it! And why do we speak?” he continued.
“We want to tell others what we think,” was the answer around him. “You are
right!” he smiled, “we want to exchange information.” With big eyes and open
mouth, the children stared at him. He looked around and went on, “when we
want to build a big house together, we need to communicate. Peter, hold this
bar! Mary, put that piece of wood over there!” The children understood that
language in a simple form was invented to make it possible to work together.
“Next, they wanted to
make their life easier, so they began to plant their food trees, bushes and
plants around their houses. In the middle, there were houses and around them,
their gardens and fields.” “The first villages!” shouted the pupils.
Suddenly on the ceiling
of the auditorium in the museum, the sun, then the moon and the stars
appeared. “Now, those monkeys began to think about day and night, and
seasons, and as they had not been able to understand that part of nature,
they imagined them to be gods and goddesses,” he looked at them and waited
for questions. But the pupils were so astonished that they could only open
their mouth but not talk. “Yes, you guessed right, they built temples.”
The pupils thought about
churches and temples they had already seen and asked themselves how those big
stones could be transported at that time, when there were no machines. The
guide seemed to read in their minds, “First, those monkeys experienced that
those immense stones could easier be moved on planks of wood, there they
built the first sledges.” “Did they only build their temples in winter?” the
pupils asked. “Good observation!” the guide replied. He put a long cloth on
the floor, asked one of the pupils to sit on it and began to pull it. The
pupils nodded with their heads because they had understood this part of the technique.
Then he put some thick tree rods on the floor and put a plank on them. A
pupil was asked to stand on it and the pulling was even easier. “Probably,
this was the predecessor of the wheel,” the guide explained.
That night the father
fell asleep with a satisfied smile on his face.
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Tuesday, 12 November 2019
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