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09/29/10

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Categories: ...and Takes On, America, Things I'd Forgotten About

A Socratic Clown

English teachers in Korea often complain that they feel like "English clowns."

I was a Socratic (method) Clown today in math and it was an amazing class.

Sometimes, being a teacher means being a clown.

And sometimes, I need to remind myself of how damn well the Socratic Method works.

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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