deep silly amusing things I heard from my students

On being haunted and being an awesome shit

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Yes, I jump into conclusions because I have many thoughts and  ideas,

50 yr old student . I asked, “Is it good to jump to conclusions?”

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poetry is the treasure of literature

 I asked a student in his fifties what he thought of poems

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I want to bend in a thousand directions like the sun does. Like love does. Like time might stop so the hands of the clock can hold each other.

Andrea Gibson, “Andrew” (via hopeless-semantics)

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Stars are both born and made,

11yr old student answers my question, Are stars born or made? 

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people with artistic jobs will never be replaced by robots,

 a 16 yr old Korean student when asked, Could you think of a job or human ability that computers can never have?

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How to be happy - 22 life-changing secrets

A huge summary of life lessons and positive psychology discoveries on how to be happy. Understand what happiness is and how you can live a fulfilling life.

There is a theory in Psychology called the hedonic treadmill, which says that great events (like winning a lottery) and terrible events (like losing a leg) can happen in your life, but after a while you are always back to your “baseline happiness”. If that is true, then more important than trying to change your external life is to actually improve your baseline happiness.

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they should stay home and be lazy,

11 year old student when asked, “What can people do so they won’t have to drink too much coffee?”

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it would require a lot of talks, lots of conversations.. but it's easier said than done,

a Korean student in his thirties when asked How can we stop terrorism?

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I'm going to write a detective book about the Arsenal soccer team and its connection to planet Mars,

13-year old Korean student when asked, What kind of book would you like to write ?

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I think they don't go here because we don't have big spaces where UFOs can land,

A Korean student in her twenties when asked Are there any alien sightings in your country?

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People are neither good nor bad when they were born,

14 yr old student to the question Are people naturally good or bad?

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They cannot find true love in online dating because they rate people there.

a 16-year old Korean student

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Monday is a hard day

a Korean student in his thirties

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esl teaching

I’LL START DOCUMENTING AMUSING/DEEP/SILLY THINGS MY STUDENTS SAY IN CLASS . yay!!!

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@nayyirah.waheed

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why I just couldnt get a room mate HAHA

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do you ever type a sentence beginning with a capital letter and then go back and change it to a lower case one like ‘woah there, gotta be casual’

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it happensssss