Comments on: Know it alls. http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/207 Crunky! This is a blog about an English teacher living in South Korea. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:35:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Eric http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/207#comment-592 Eric Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:46:33 +0000 http://www.torgodevil.com/?p=207#comment-592 I'll offer this sage advice a teacher friend of mine gave me: "Some people need to be told they are special. Some need to be told they are not." I can't stand the princess students. The boys that talk back I understand. Usually you just have to humiliate them in front of their friends and show that you're not only smarter but meaner than they are. Girls are a different story, more emotionally complex. Public humiliation doesn't really work on them. Plus they hold grudges. Boys will get over just about anything relatively quickly. Girls will brood over your slow and painful death for years. Good luck. I’ll offer this sage advice a teacher friend of mine gave me: “Some people need to be told they are special. Some need to be told they are not.”

I can’t stand the princess students. The boys that talk back I understand. Usually you just have to humiliate them in front of their friends and show that you’re not only smarter but meaner than they are. Girls are a different story, more emotionally complex. Public humiliation doesn’t really work on them. Plus they hold grudges. Boys will get over just about anything relatively quickly. Girls will brood over your slow and painful death for years. Good luck.

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