Leigh Doughty
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Leigh Doughty is a writer and language tutor based in HCMC, Vietnam.
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Camus and Our Dance with Death
The French philosopher, Albert Camus, wrote one of the defining novels of our time. His novel, The Plague, not only captured the shock of succumbing to an epidemic, but it also captured the grief, isolation, theorising, and the subsequent aftermath of the outbreak. Camus published The Plague in 1947, but it is when reading his novel today that his novel becomes more relevant and alive than in any other time in history.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Geeks
Learning to Survive and Thrive in Vietnamese Public School
Four years of teaching in Vietnamese public schools and I’m still hooked. The journey is a teeming mess of thousands of motorbikes twisting their way through this frenetic city. The heat is already rising. Exhausts blast in my face and onto my clothes and my eardrums are bombarded with a cacophony of beeping horns. By the time I get to school I smell motorbike fumes and fresh sweat.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Education
China’s New Legislation Knocks the ESL Industry.
On July 23rd, China’s highest governing body, released new rules banning for profit companies from teaching in core curriculum subjects. They stated that no new licenses would be issued and all existing companies must register as non profits or face closure.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Education
Why Fiction Matters
We’ve all met them, those furrow browed grumps who claim fiction is a waste of time. They insist, with all the finality in the world, that there is no knowledge to be found in a novel that can’t be found elsewhere. And of course you nod, better that than try to argue with the bore. However, sometimes we must defend not only that which is dear, but that which is important.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Education
How To Become a Journalist
It began when I heard about a grassroots fundraiser to help refugees in Calais. A young woman had written a Facebook post explaining that they were looking for donations and volunteers. She wrote that they were going to take all the donations - food, clothes, tents, care packages - and were going to drive them from the Midlands all the way down to the refugee camp near the port of Calais.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Journal
