A dictator once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers. He then set the chicken on the floor a short distance away. The chicken was bloodied and suffering immensely, yet, when the dictator began to toss some bits of wheat toward the chicken it followed him around. He said to his follower, "This is how easy it is to govern stupid people. They will follow you no matter how much pain you cause them, as long as you throw a little worthless treat once in a while." That is how you succeed at the ALT and Eikaiwa, be a good little chicken English Education Lords, not a dancing monkey, but a chicken.












