The high school world history teacher asked us to write a short paper on whether Alexander The Great deserved to be called great. As he collected the papers, I heard a student say, "Oh, I forgot to do that!' He scrawled two sentences hastily on a piece of paper and handed it in.
The teacher read some of our papers aloud. About five or six selections in, he came to that student's paper.
"Was Alexander The Great great? No, I don't think so," the teacher read.
After a pause, he told the class, "Not quite the depth I was looking for..."
