Daily Archives: April 10, 2007

Teaching: Why I Do It

Humble Beginnings
“Build it and they will come” is what I remember thinking when I first opened my English school franchise. It feels like just yesterday when I said goodbye to being an employee and made my decision to open my own business. I was young and enthusiastic but really didn’t have much idea of what [...]

My Take on English in Japan

Having taught English back in the late 1970’s at Berlitz and in the early 1980’s in the evening to a large corporation’s employees destined to work for extended periods in the middle east and southeast Asia and having just returned this summer after a 20-year hiatus during which I worked in engineering and management in [...]

On Why Students Keep Coming

After nearly ten years of teaching English, eight of those spent in Japan and over five in the Smiths franchise system, I have reached the profound conclusion that running a small language school for adults is much like operating a successful hairdresser’s, and I’m not simply referring to handing out fliers on the street…
A Quick [...]