OAKLAND, California – One first-grade student’s wrong answer to a riddle was so great it left the whole class unimpressed when the teacher revealed the right one.
Bret Turner, a teacher at Head-Royce School in California, posted a puzzle of the week for his first-grade students.
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It reads:
“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time & space. What am I?”
"The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment,” Turner tweeted.
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Turner then revealed the correct answer, “to a largely unimpressed audience,” as he puts it.
Other guesses before the big reveal were:
Not everything
All stuff
The end
Nothing thing
The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment pic.twitter.com/7sYFxHNcZk
— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 2, 2018
The tweet has been liked more than 240,000 times in two days.