On Fads…

Posted: 12th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in General
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  1. Alex Case says:

    Very good. Did you write it?

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  2. admin says:

    It’s based on a paragraph in the book mentioned at the bottomn of the article, but yes, I wrote the text around the ideas – the ‘quotes’ from the ‘people’ contain text from the book itself…

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  4. Sandy says:

    Do you think that these “passive consumers of other people’s lives” will become … EFL teachers!?

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  5. admin says:

    Now there’s a thought. I imagine they’ll become adults and go into various professions, wouldn’t want to pigeonhole their young lives just yet. Of course, this isn’t real, you know – this article, I mean?

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  6. Graham Mills says:

    Excellent. Do I really have to pay 50p to use it? :p

    I’m reminded of the video where one monk is training another to use a book instead of a scroll. Guess everyone’s seen that by now?

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  7. Sandy says:

    Not real? Come on – I’m not gullible!!

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  8. admin says:

    You know that’s not in the dictionary, right?

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  9. I used that one today… I told a class that the government had decided to abolish two of the four writing scripts we use here in Japan. They were up in arms, until I told them to look up gullible in their dictionaries.

    Fun lesson though! Which two would you get rid of, and how would the world be different….?

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  10. Carol Rainbow says:

    My First thought was that it was like the Medieval Helpdesk too :-) but it reminded me of this site also – Pencils across the curriculum. Does this ring any bells anywhere?

    http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/nansen/content/section/pencils.html

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