As good a topic as any to kick off this blog, I suppose. 
“Our revolutionary approach to test prep can help your test scores soar. Guaranteed.”
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the temptation–you think your approach to teaching the test is the best (otherwise you wouldn’t be teaching that way) and you have at least a few students who tell you that they think your way of teaching is the best. And probably a few of those students will tell you that they’ve studied at other places before and didn’t like it.
A good friend of mine and I for many years have had a running joke about how many people you need to agree with you for you to think that your belief is incontrovertible. Yes, we believe that for many people (including us in many cases) that that number is surprisingly low–two, to be exact. Continue reading “Revolutionary” →