Bad Faith and the Language Learner: Why We Resist Speaking
“I’m just not a languages person.” Why Sartre would call that bad faith, what research says about aptitude and speaking anxiety, and what I do about it in the classroom.
Category: Philosophy
Reflections on philosophy, thought, language, and the examined life.
The Stoic Teacher: Managing Outcomes You Cannot Control
Epictetus divided the world into what is up to us and what is not. What that distinction means for a teacher when a well-planned lesson falls flat, and a two-question ritual for before and after…
Why I Teach: The Philosophical Case for Language Education
There is a question I return to regularly, usually on the mornings before a difficult lesson: why do I do this? Not in the existential spiral sense, but as a genuine inquiry. Teaching English is…