When I was in primary School, I got into an argument (辩论) with a boy in my class. The teacher 1 to teach us a very important lesson.
She brought us up to the front of the classroom and placed him on one side of her desk and 2 on the other. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could 3 see that it was black. She asked the boy what colour the object was. "White," he answered.
I couldn't 4 he said the object was white, when it was clearly black! Another argument started between my classmate and me, this time about the 5 of the object.
The teacher told me to go and 6 where the boy was standing and told him to come and stand where I had been. We changed 7, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, "White."
It was an object with two 8 colored sides, and from his viewpoint it was white. Only from my 9 it was black.
I have never 10 the lesson I learnt that day. Sometimes we need to look at the problem from the other person's viewpoint in order to truly understand his/her view.
