“All you did was humiliate a teacher. In front of her class.” His voice was quiet but his face very red. He took off his glasses and glared at me, and looked so gravely handsome it lent a certain weight to his position, as if those who are right are always more beautiful. “But—it’s—I mean, I’m not saying it’s a question of ability, it’s a ‘structural issue’—you always say that yourself—and I’m just saying maybe we could have an English lesson, OK, of course, but let’s teach them in their own languages in their own country, and then they can—they could, I mean, you know, take English tests
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