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[Tom Le Seelleur]

To the boring cynics, pessimists and always negative posters - the UAE is beginiing to embrace reading both at home, at school and at work. There is a growing band of teachers who are making progress with non western students and the belief that locals dont or wont read is beginning to be challenged. The Power of One.

[ardiles81]

The Power of One...perhaps the one being the exception that proves the rule.

Hey don't be too harsh on the cynics, I know some very interesting, professional and funny ones who work hard but are not blind to the reality of teaching the emirati higher ed students that we meet every semester. And what is a cynic - a retired optimist or realist who has seen too much?

Anyway you can only do so much with the raw materials that are put through to us with a risible CEPA score from the high schools...and the underpaid unrespected, so I hear, staff can only do so much with perhaps unruly kids spoilt on consumer goods and (possibly) deprived of parental input as so many, according to the papers and my students anyway, kids are brought up by nanny or Ninetendo.

Good luck with your venture. I shall continue bashing away at it too otherwise what point is there in being a teacher...?