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 Useful Links: Sites for Teachers TESOL Teacher Sites Total ESL ESL Articles Teach Overseas ESL Billboard ESL Content Feed Year or career - exciting teaching opportunities around the globe with year-round start dates. Competitive benefits package offered! A thoughtful reading from the Book of GOE, just south of the remittance lineDate: 2010-04-16 21:04:29, Location: South AmericaThere is a room of varying size just off the buttery, it is a very quiet room, one in which I rarely, if ever, find my little labourers. The room has no name quite simply because we have yet come up with an utterance that encompasses all that it has come to mean to us, and to all the GOErs that have passed through. It is unnamed, but quite remarked upon because it is the resting place of the book of GOE. A steadily evolving body of knowledge added to and edited by those valiant Guerrilla Ontological Educators that pass through these halls...think of it like the internet, minus the porn, the pop ups, the viral marketing, the lack of standards (well come to think of it it's really nothing like the internet) It is from this book that I was reading the other day, pondering whatever it was that I was pondering. When I came upon a particularly appropriate passage: What came first the chicken or the egg? Now this used to be fun, but now they have come up with a real answer. So I have a better question: what came first thought or language? Because you can't have language without thought and you can't have a thought without some form of language. Adam named things and in doing so his thoughts became word and the word became law. The utterance and the word is what we deal with; the mythical growl that forms in the glottal stop, the quested for ėth' sound. Incantation after incantation "Ay B4 ee egsepta ftr see, un din wyrds sachas nay brn way" Make no mistake about it we are in the shaman business. The monster form of 196 833 sides rotates in and out and we are the ones that catch the snowflake on our tongues as we roll them and teach others to do the same. I read this as a remembrance of those that have left their mark and gone before, the Springhorn, the Water Tester, the Bullet, the Smiler, the Stretch, the ECS puddle, the Anti-Egg, and the Three Givers of Law. I read these words and am reminded of the breaches of the tear and staunch GOErs holding the line against the ankle nipping demons of subject -object confusion; all done despite a few participles dangling over the edge. They remind me of just what this ESL thing is. Because it is more than teaching, you could have done that back home. NO this is a higher alchemy, where much like in that noble science everything has two meanings. It is the perpetuation of a language, the practical applications that will lead to economic gain and social elevation on the part of the student. But it is also the transcendental alchemy of the soul, of the stuff of existence itself: consciousness, that takes place. Where the teacher becomes more than instructor, but rather a guide through a landscape of thought, a mindscape whose oceans and continents are language. The guide tenuously traces the path between dull reality and transcendental truth through the glamour of simple grammar. ESL classes are moments of trans-human shamanic trance, where we all speak in tongues and student and teacher alike are saved. And I am looking for one more proud consciousness surfer, to dip their toe into an ocean of GOE (forgive the horrid rhyme but I couldn't resist) I continue to wash bottles for the great and the soon to be great, waiting for the next storied arrival to our shores. Expecting: * Letters of Marque from Higher Education Gods and Monsters * A burning desire to rescue the EFL masses from the ankle nipping demons of subject-object confusion and fear of speaking * Chronological currency to be spent, where things are not pretty, but are definitely good. And offering: * A roof overhead that does not leak. * Fancy pieces of multi-colour paper, handed over promptly. * An opportunity to fashion enchantments of grammatical battle and hopeful change |
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