Thursday, August 22, 2013

Good morning crew,

It has been a stressful week. Master Han has been on vacation so I and another instructor have been running classes all week. That has been an adventure.

Over the last couple of years (and especially in the last week) I have learned that teaching is more about psychology than pedagogy. It is a balance between enforcing discipline, earning confidence and nurturing respect. It is not an easy balance and I am still learning how to achieve it.

Of course, the advantage of teaching taekwondo (versus, say, English which is what I have my college degree in) is that I can kick my students. I don't think that would fly in the public school system.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"A study has found that some people can suffer symptoms of withdrawal when they are forced to stay away from social media sites. This is why I'm not even on Facebook. I update my high school yearbook manually with a pen." -Jimmy Kimmel

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"Recently, in one of the New York City subway cars, they found a dead shark. This is bad for the city. People used to laugh at me for carrying a spear gun on the subway, but who's laughing now?" -Dave Letterman

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"Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, 'yesterday.'" -Jimmy Fallon

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A young man had just graduated from Harvard and was so excited just thinking about his future.

He gets into a taxi and the driver says, "How are you this fine day?"

"I'm the Class of 2012, just graduated from Harvard and I just can't wait to go out there and see what the world has in store for me."

"Congratulations," said the driver reaching back to shake the young man's hand. "I'm Mitch. Harvard Class of '79."


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As the high school teacher was correcting essays written by her students she read, "Pedro jumped on his burrow and rode off into the sunset."

She wrote at the bottom of the page, "You obviously have problems with homonyms. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A burro is an ass. At your age it's time to learn the difference."