Teaching in Japan: the Way of the Dragon
Image via Wikipedia The scene: a highschool gym which also serves as assembly hall. The hall is filled with rowdy students. A stranger takes the podium. No-one pays him the slightest attention. He stands there gazing around at the chattering students. “Why don’t you say something?” asks a girl at the front, “you peed in [...]
The nail that sticks out…
I teach a writing class, for which I have the students create blogs. I have the same group of students as in the first semester. There’s one student who showed up for a few classes, but then stopped. In a brief conversation, this student said it was difficult to “join” the class, as it was [...]
