Today in my General English 2 class I reached the dizzying heights of Chapter 8. subject: heroes. I asked my students who their hero was, and received the rather depressing answer that they didn't have heroes, not even Ho Chi Minh. To brighten things up a bit I gave them a short handout on Paul Robeson, which explained both his singing career and his struggles as a Communist in Cold War-era America. One of the students raised his hand and asked "Teacher, what is a Communist?".
Talk about shipping coal to Newcastle. I drew the hammer and sickle on the board, and that seemed to work. But you never can tell...
2 comments:
Yes, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, I remember one political wag said that just about the only real Communist Party left was in the United States. Of course, that was before Putin . . .
He is probably from the TC2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Central_Commission_of_Military_Intelligence).
Probably testing to see if you are ideologically fit to teach. You did not bash Communism and waste no time in praising HCM right?
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