Tag: status
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Public Shame in Education: Some Cultures Use It
This article about a teacher being terminated for supposedly “bullying” a bully made me think about an amusing incident when I was living in Vietnam. I know nothing about the situation in the article, so I cannot comment whether the school administrators were right or not. However, the contrast in the educational philosophies between the United States…
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Your Highness, Walt Disney, and other words we don’t think about
How often have you come across words that we use everyday only to finally realize how strange they are or what type of hidden meaning lurks deep inside the etymology of the word? I’ve often been struck by how a person’s name becomes something completely different. ‘Walt Disney’ is a perfect example of it. It…
Author Mark W Sasse 