The old riddle above fascinates. Our level-one, "fast-reasoning mind" often blurts out, "The fool has so much to learn and the wise person so much to teach, that the fool learns the most." But when we have time, or a good night's sleep, we often wake up to level-two reasoning and say, "Umm, the wise person, being wise, has learned-to-learn and so should be able to learn something even from a fool. The fool is probably a fool for lack of knowing how to learn." Finally, we might even get to level-three thinking and really enjoy surprising ourselves.