Hire Learning
This CNN article made me laugh and then feel depressed about education in the US. It talks about sex appeal used to help boost sales in tutoring, in Hong Kong.
“‘Their long legs are the most beautiful ones in the tutorial industry,’ said Ken Ng, head of Modern Education, one of the city’s biggest tutoring businesses. ‘This is our selling point.’
Sex appeal has become a hot selling point, just as important as teaching ability and knowledge, in Hong Kong’s hypercompetitive world of cram schools — or ‘bou zap se’ in the local Cantonese dialect.”
If this was how it was done in the USA, students might do a lot better.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/21/sexy.tutors.ap/index.html
January 28th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I remeber the P.Y.Ts WA hired. They were just graduating college and I was just entering junior high. I tried so, so, oh so hard to concentrate. Those teachers were soft and inviting in both their apperance and attitude. The classes I did excell in were taught by the old, weathered, virtually indestructable women.