The Split Cherry Tree – Bridging Text & Context

1. Read the following quotation and connect it to the story. Give information from the text to support your answer.

“Education is not only about knowledge. All teachers can teach facts and figures. However, a true educator teaches values and morals as well.” (Jesse Stuart)

2. Charles Dickens, the English writer, once said: “Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else”.

How does this quotation connect with the story The Split Cherry Tree?

3. The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore said: “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

Make a connection between this quote and the story. Support your answer with information from the story.