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A Story for Educators

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Today, I’d like to share a very personal story. A story told at the U. of T. commencement address in the 1980s (which year eludes me – I’m getting old!) by Gyorgy Faludy. My mentor – an Hungarian poet, writer, educator, thinker without equal. Read more about Faludy here. Here are some photos of his [...]

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Languages, Diversity and teaching our children

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Pluralism is something we don’t think about too often but WE SHOULD, especially as language teachers, especially English language teachers.
Part of our role, wherever we are, is to educate our students about the incredible diversity of this planet, cultural/linguistic. Educate our students to embrace “the other” and love the other (if I may be so [...]

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