Finding My Part in Events
A number of years ago I was teaching a philosophy class that I started to dread going to more and more as the school term wore on. After determining grades for all the students and turning my grade sheets into the records office, I was sitting in my office getting ready to go home when I decided I would scan the class roster and put a red checkmark next to each student’s name that had been argumentative. Suddenly I was reminded of a college sponsored workshop I had gone to given by Hal Pitt. Hal told the story of a person he had met who was in the army and complained constantly that “I hate the army!” Hal asked why he hated the army and was told “I’m just unbelievably frustrated working week after week with this utter fool who is my immediate superior.” So as it turned out, he did not hate the entire a...
