Subject: Random Thought: The Cost of Grades Is Too High From: Louis_Schmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Basically Louis's semesterly whine about grades. Before you say I'm flaming, left me operationally define whining as "frequently complaining about a situation that you can change and won't or one that you cannot change."
(Rashly burning one of my preceious three TIPS postings for the day on a response (to a response) to one of Louis' postings...)
Louis, allow me to suggest that you read Epictetus' "Handbook," one of the greatest (and shortest) pieces of Sotic philosophy ever written. It will ease your mind about grades... and perhaps other things as well.
It begins: "Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us.... The things that are up to us are naturally free..., the things that are not up to us are enslaved.... If you think that things naturally enslaved are free... you will be thwarted, miserable, upset, and will blame both gods and men."
There is even a copy on-line (under the title "Enchiridion") at: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
(It is a different translation from the N.P. White translation above.)
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
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