The school graded students and placed them in classes according to intellectual ability. The test as to who got which teacher in what classroom asked:
Put these in correct order:
Four
Three
One
Five
Two
Clifford answered:
Five
Four
One
Three
Two
He was marked wrong. The required answer was:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Clifford was put in a class for dummies who couldn’t count. Those who wrote the required answer were not put in a class for dummies who didn’t know the alphabet.