Deepti and Alio were excited to read the story. Deepti said “Now that I understand the difference between fact and opinion, lot of things make sense to me now”. “Yes”, said Ali, “Remember the fight we had about whose school is better- yours or mine, we were so sure that each of us was right, but we were only going by our opinions.” Deepti laughed, “I guess my school is best for me and your school is best for you. But the time when we were fighting about who would make the best student club head- I think we could have tried to get more facts about the candidates instead of just going by our opinions”. Ali said “You are right Deepti, I think we are lazy sometimes to get the facts and look at the matter objectively”.

Have you also ignored facts at times and gone by opinion? Or seen your friends doing this? Have a discussion with your friends on this, or write in a journal.