I began my first faculty position after graduate school in September of '75. Since the deadline for text book ordering was well before the date I was hired, I inherited the text used by the previous professor in my position. It turned out to be a book that represented a strongly different philosophical interpretation of the course content. Since the course was for first-year graduate students, I assumed that I could easily supplement the text with various papers representing dissenting opinions and interpretations.

That first course proved to be somewhat of a disaster. Even though these were graduate students working toward a master's degree, they were very confused and upset by the notion that the content of a text might be wrong. Several students objected that a published text must be the correct and most accurate interpretation of the facts.