Eye-Opening Symbols

Have you ever heard of, or participated in, the project from grade school that required carrying around an egg for a week? In this experiment, the egg represents a baby, and each students' job is to keep the egg from cracking. This egg is a symbol used to explain just how hard it is to care for a “real” baby; thus, after the project was over, you were to give a special thanks to your parents for all they’d done in your life. Thinking about this egg experiment, we can see the point of symbolis...