The Deep Thoughts of My Brilliant Students...

I have really come to enjoy the students that I have been blessed with this semester. Both EGC classes and my Grammar Practice class students continue to amaze me with their deep insights into things. Here are a few examples:
While doing a "classification essay warm-up activity" I asked my composition students to consider how many types of people they thought there are in the world and to tell us the categories. Here are some of the surprising answers:
3 kinds:

• quiet
• active
• both

3 kinds:

• party animals
• nerds
• those who study hard and party

3 kinds:

• those who like dogs
• those who don't like dogs
• those who eat dogs

2 kinds:

• logical
• illogical

4 kinds:

• those falling in love
• those falling out of love
• those in love
• those out of love

3 kinds:

• those who use desktops
• those who use laptops
• those who don't use computers at all

2 kinds:

• those who like to spend time with others
• those who like to spend time alone

4 kinds:

• white-collar workers
• blue-collar workers
• part-time workers
• unemployed

2 kinds:

• doers
• thinkers

3 kinds:

• those who believe in creation
• those who believe in evolution
• those who believe in nothing

10 kinds of people

• those who read binary numbers
• those who don't...

Another Example of My Students Creativity/Imagination:

For the beginning warm-up ? of the day, I wrote on the board, "What do you think is the most powerful weapon in the world?" Here are some of their answers:

• Nuclear bombs (probably the #1 answer)
• Love (probably the 2nd most popular answer)
• Biological weapons
• Hatred (as it destroys everything)
• A girlfriend's tears!
• The mouth (as it can make one happy or depressed)
• Our worldview (as in the case of Muslims it can cause death)
• Hatred (as it cause one to punch another in the face or cause war)
• Our intellectual property (our brain-as no one can take it away)
• God
• Fire (as it burns everything)
• The tongue
• Our beliefs or ideology (our strong beliefs cause us to do good or bad)
• The Word of God (as it can change someone)
• Swearing
• English (This was Sung-Bin's answer. He said, "To conquer English is to conquer the world!" Wow!)
• Indifference (can kill or heal depending on our feelings)
• Our belief (Jeong-Sung gave a great example of Joshua marching 13 times around Jericho which would have seemed ridiculous without faith.)

Pretty bright and imaginative minds here, huh?!