Exporting our cliches
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robinturnerThis from a couple who were so (understandably) fed up with the British educational system that they moved to Zambia: "We were sick to death of the way in which the powers that be were tilting at the windmills of education. We were also becoming neurotic about the ever widening jaws of the legal system ... Holidays aside, it's the teaching which has been the real jewel in our crown."
At the end of the day, to cut a long story short, I sincerely and truly hope that this isn't a case of the blind leading the blind along a road paved with good intentions into a slough of despond; in other words, I hope they didn't go to Zambia to teach English, but I fear that their reference to "a stack of Hamlets" wasn't referring to cigars.
At the end of the day, to cut a long story short, I sincerely and truly hope that this isn't a case of the blind leading the blind along a road paved with good intentions into a slough of despond; in other words, I hope they didn't go to Zambia to teach English, but I fear that their reference to "a stack of Hamlets" wasn't referring to cigars.
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Re: I'm a qualified "lecturer"...
Date: 2004-06-22 03:14 am (UTC)I got myself nicely ostracised by choosing to eat with my students in the graphics workshop (which was right next to the canteen) rather than with my colleagues in the smoky staff-room listening to their reactionary tosh. The students were wonderful : stoical, determined, funny, likeable - even the rebellious and lazy ones.
LPC asked me to renew my contact. It was tempting. LCP is a historic place (Tom Eckersly, Steven Dworkin, Alexei Sayle, Neville Brody), but I refused. I went off to Cambridge to start my own business - MISTAKE ! I couldn't have stayed at LCP tho'. I'd have gone mad.