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As, I’m planning the lessons till the end of the year, I am finding a renewed love for the art of teaching and my love for the English language. A little while ago I was featured by the newspaper and website in the Chosun region for my teaching. Yes, I know I am slightly taller than my Korean fifth graders.

Want to tap into all the interactive internet projects from around the world? Check out the Internet Registry project, specially the Doors of Diplomacy, sponsored by the Department of State with a $2000 cash prize for the winning group.

A divisive issue in education and society, what is fair? What deserves merit? Via John Conell’s blog, quoting Richard Florida’s book “meritocracy… has its dark side. Qualities that confer merit, such as technical knowledge and mental discipline, are socially acquired and cultivated. Yet those who have these qualities may easily start thinking they were born with them, or acquired them all on their own, or that others “just don’t have it.” By papering over the causes of cultural and educational advantage, meritocracy may subtly perpetuate the very prejudices it claims to renounce.”

What is a Mooreeffoc you ask? Via M. Quinion’s World Wide Words, first created by Charles Dickens as one of his characters was peeking into an office and reading a reflection. It has then been a word used to mean your forehead is really going to hurt after running into the painfully obvious. (Backwards mooreeffoc is coffee room). I had the same reaction. Wish me luck in this week’s temple stay and Sunmudo practice..KIAAAA!!!

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