A manifesto

If we ever aspire to be being something more than linguistic "handymen" than we have to look at something more than mere technique and embrace wider educational concepts. This means learning something other than the next gimmick to be applied in the class or blindly following a coursebook written by somebody who who has never set foot in the country, let alone taught a class there. It also mean means using guerrilla tactics in the classroom, subtly subverting the regime in which you teach, never confronting those who make decisions directly, but rather telling them what they want to hear whilst following your own path. Now why should somebody as badly paid and as unappreciated as you do such a thing?

Well, first of all your students will appreciate it, and secondly, it will stop you drifting into premature didactic senility, If you believe that playing it safe or taking the easy route will help you five years down the line then you are seriously mistaken. Change, develop and grow!