Lifestyle course: Essay for next week

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

Students on my lifestyle course -- I've fixed the topic for next week.

Some of my students have asked about something called "Muggles". As I understand the term, it's simply a way of saying "people that aren't like me".

So that's the subject of this week's essay, and next week's seminar. Write a hundred words all about the people who aren't like you. What motivates them, what abilities they have, what you can gain by understanding them.

Please have the work in my in-tray here by Saturday evening.
Next week's seminar will be on Monday once again. I'll be in my room all day, so whenever you can come by will be fine.

I'll see if I can make any vacancies for new students over the next day or two.

Comments

[neptune-wallace.livejournal.com]

The thing you have to remember about people who are different, is that you should try to get to know them before just doing something crazy mean like stripping them naked and duct-taping them to a flagpole. There's no call for that sort of thing, and it can give a person nightmares for weeks. If you are not able to be nice to people who are different and try to get to know them, you can at least ignore them completely, rather than publicly humiliating them just because you can.