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Question
Mention three things we can learn from the ‘tiny teacher’. Give reasons for choosing these items.
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Solution
From the “tiny teacher’ we learn to be hard working because they spend most of their time searching for food and do their share of work intelligently and bravely. All ants have a sense of duty and discipline, cleanliness and care for their young ones .This can be observed in the way they teach and train the young ones care for the young ones as soldiers guard them, workers feed and clean them, and also carry them about for airing, exercise and sunshine. No worker, soldier or cleaner will ever harm a grub.
Above all they have a firm loyalty to the land where they live which is what we all humans must learn from them.
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