Crassroom VoicesReflections on Education

Contents

1. Characters
2. Prolog
3. Food for Thought
4. Edusales.com
5. McTeaching
6. Stranger than Fiction
7. In Name Only
8. Teacherspeak
9. Raised Hands
10. Students that Fail
11. Students that Succeed
12. Factory schools
13. Zombie Detection
14. How 2-B-A Mediocre Teacher
15. Info Shock
16. Clyde Dillybaum's Report Card
17. Interview with a model teacher
18. Classroom Ideologies
19. PLATO-700
20. Streams of Knowledge
21. Textese
22. The Road to Wisdom
23. 2 Seasons of Teaching
24. Die-alog
25. Empty Containers?
26. culture of mediocrity
27. Linguistic Identiti€$
28. Layered Learning
29. The English of Today?
30. Eñg£i$h $tüdies
31. Engli-SS-h Only
32. Applied Linguistics
33. Eeeeentrance Eeeexams
34. Ideal Students
35. Entrance Cere-money
36. Educational Labyrinth
37. Before Class
38. Tuned Out
39. Classroom Dictator
40. Natural Language Processing
41. Travel Dialog
42. Educational Inspector
43. 2 B ahh Teacher
44. TV Addiction
45. 2 Teeeache
46. Thanks to Our Teachers
47. Student Grading
48. Grade Inflation
49. ABC University
50. Leadership
51. Problem Student
52. Problem Teacher
53. You can Be a Perfect Teacher!
54. A Balanced Curriculum
55. Global Issues
56. Student-Teacher Dialog 1
57. Student-Teacher Dialog 2
58. Student-Teacher Dialog 3
59. Centering
60. Astonished Students Comment
61. Shouldn't We Expect Excellence?
62. The Experts
63. A Question of Time
64. TeACHErs?
65. Hand of Insight
66. Philosophy Lesson
67. Night Fantasy
68. Student Rant #4334
69. Another Teacher Rant
70. Teacher Reflections
71. School Ghosts
72. Info-Spheres
73. Class Dynamics
74. Teacher Prayer
75. Out-TeAcH
76. Where Writing Starts
77. Kitchen Table Rhetoric
78. When Rhetoric Gets Hard
79. In the Shadow of Ancients
80. The Politics of Linguistic Identity
81. 3 Language Learners
82. Programmed Responses
83. Babbit's Babble
84. Astronomy 101
85. Study Abroad Poem
86. Learner Reactions
87. Missing Elements
88. Discourse Cohesion
89. Crassroom
90. The Lure of Books
91. Invisible Teachers
92. Teachers as Butchers
93. How to Grill a Teacher
94. The Effects of N-Beam Exposure…
95. Read On
96. Post-Modern Education
97. The Last Class
98. Eye-Opener
99. Glossary of Educational Terms
100. Hand of Prophecy
101. Postlog

This collection of poetry, art, dialogs, raves, and commentaries highlights some classroom experiences and my feelings about education. Each piece is a different vision of what can happen in the name of education. Many of these works are concerned with foreign language instruction, but more than a few with education in general.

Since half of my life has been teaching English in Asia, I've been especially interested in things that happen inside language classrooms. The complex power relations between teachers, students, administrators, and textbook publishers are underscored in many of these works.

Ver. 7.6  •  16 Aug. 2026  •  Shizuoka, Japan
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