Lunch break in the staff room, I’m heating up my Polish soup (yum!) and am asked about what is it that smells so good. I explain. My interlocutor is immediately triggered into motion, and bestows me with two cans of Polish fish specialities, which – as he explained – someone had given to him. All surprised at how someone could so easily part with such a delicious thing, and none the less grateful, even if as I’ve later discovered the fish had expired a year ago – it was canned so I still ate it and am still alive and feeling well. But that is beside the point. Or maybe not completely. But never mind. So I cautiously enquire about whether my benefactor is sure and certain not to want to eat it himself and he replies, to my utter bewilderment: “Yeah, sure, I don’t like imported”.
The sad thing is, that he is a teacher and his job description is therefore broadening his students’ horizons.
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When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
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When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
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