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mbperrin

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5. I believe they will be shocked in Africa - real culture shock for them there.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 08:54 AM
Jul 2013

I believe Asia will and is in the process of co-opting them now - the Chinese were the first commercial and trading civilization after all.

But I won't shed a tear for them.


Nor am I shedding a tear for us, because like many other teachers in the country, I take a few weeks to teach the kids how to pass their "high stakes tests" and then I can do what I like and that students will find of actual value.

Or at least many of them thought it was of some value after I see them years later.

Outwardly conform, inwardly be free. The most valuable lessons I learned at A&M many years ago.

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