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I got the Chinese competitions top award
The 2003 Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, also known as the “Chinese Bridge” Competition, which is sponsored by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL), lowered its curtain on December 22. On the morning before the final competition (December 21), China.org.cn reporter interviewed some of the contestants at […]
Continuar Leyendo..>>Less than enthusisatic about campus independence
“Be yourself!” This is a line from the 1989 Oscar-winning movie “Dead Poets Society”, in which an idealistic teacher inspired his students to “suck the marrow out of life” by maintaining their individual identities while following their dreams.
I wonder how many of us have seen this wonderfully acted story. It seems that […]
Bin Laden was “a shy, courteous boy” - ex-teacher
Osama bin Laden was a quiet and shy pupil, a British teacher who taught him English at an elite Saudi Arabian school was quoted. Brian Fyfield-Shayler told Britain’s Sun newspaper the boy who grew into the world’s most wanted man behaved well, did all his work on time and was not particularly religious.”I remember him […]
Continuar Leyendo..>>In times of terror, teens talk the talk
Their bedrooms are “ground zero.” Translation? A total mess.A mean teacher? He’s “such a terrorist.”A student is disciplined? “It was total jihad.”Petty concerns? “That’s so Sept. 10.” And out-of-style clothes? “Is that a burqa?” It’s just six months since Sept. 11, but that’s enough time for the vocabulary of one of the country’s most frightening […]
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