Word Frequency Once there was a teacher. A very famous teacher. A very gifted teacher. Who understood the difference. Between recognition and production. And the best ratio of learning. Between the two. So she started off slowly. In the target language. Teaching with carefully chosen words. […]
Street Preacher Origin Story
Embattled Scientist Once upon a time there was a scientist. He was very brilliant, but very troubled. He’d always heard voices in the back of his mind. They would interfere with him when he studied. But he could tune them out. They would interfere with him when he talked to […]
Inter Generational Resonance
Math and Music One of the coolest overlapping areas of science is humans and music. On the one hand, humans are very subjective, logic or mathematics isn’t our strong suit. In fact, if most of us had to take a course in pure logic or any advanced math like calculus or differential equations, […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]