“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant, he bought a cow to ride on.”

Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1750

I encountered while re-reading…
Rick Wormeli, Fair Isn’t Always Equal Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (Portland, ME; Westerville, Ohio: Stenhouse?; National Middle School Assoc., 2006).