The story of three boys

Adolf Hitler - Benito Mussolini - Jozef Stalin

The gift of patience has become a rare virtue indeed, mostly because nowadays everyone is so busy and occupied with so many odds and ends. Parents caring for their children, while trying to keep up with their own jobs. Teachers teaching their students, disciplining them and trying to love them at the same time. People at work trying to keep up with the demands and pressure from their bosses, while at the same time trying not to lose their cool. Most people however tell you that their patience is really tested when they have to deal with children. Patient parents were frequently rewarded throughout history, while those with a short fuse had to regret any quick impatient decision they had to make.
I wonder how many of you realize that it could have been lack of patience on the part of three school Principals that 60 years ago we experienced World War II. If you think this reason is too far-fetched, just reflect on this true story. Three boys attended Church-run schools, not necessarily Catholic schools, but privately-owned. One of them lived in Germany, and was found drawing pictures during a geography class. The School principal without giving him any chance, decided to suspend him from the school. That boy's name was Adolf Hitler.
Another boy attended a Catholic School in Italy, and was often caught fighting with other students. The Principal did give him a few chances to improve his behavior, but enough was enough, and was suspended. That boy was Benito Mussolini. Yet a third boy attended a 'boarding school' in the Soviet Union, and once was caught hiding some revolutionary books under the mattress of his bed. The school authorities objected to this and they suspended him from that school. His name was Josef Stalin.
So, here we have three boys, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin, whose school Principals were kind of impatient with them. Who knows what would have happened if they were kept in their respective Church schools ! Maybe the world would never have passed through the atrocities of World War II, the Holocaust, the social pain of Nazism and Communism. I am sure a little patience would have given us a much more peaceful 20th century !