The current President of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors is DONALD C. HOUTS. Formerly a local pastor, a chaplain-supervisor, and professor of pastoral care and counseling at St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, he is presently Director of Pastoral Care and Counseling for the Illinois Area of the United Methodist Church. His sermons offered here were directed to the congregation of Wesley United Methodist Church in Champaign, Illinois, where he sometimes is asked to preach for the senior pastor. Wesley is a university congregation with several hundred University of Illinois students in attendance each Sunday. The pastoral concern behind Smart, Wise, and Foolish was the opening of the new school year. Here Houts considers and questions some of the common percep…