In response to Re Low-life characters vs. a personality of integrity - holding a degree may help! (Charles)

The thing about degree holders is that most of these types who decide to come to China do not have negotiation skills. They most likely grew up in a predominantly win-lose type of household where their ideas/opinions were marginalized and they were beaten down whenever they expressed something inconvenient to the authority within the household they were living in. Usually the only outlet is education, and they cling to those pieces of paper called degrees. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with getting more knowledge to raise your own self-esteem.

Where the problem comes in is the degree holders will suddenly fancy themselves to be experts on every topic being discussed. They usually think of themselves as the know-it-all in an ESL office amongst other expats.

One should remember that knowledge is infinite, and to truly possess knowledge is to be humble. Most ESL Teachers/Deechers lack this humble mind. Tells a lot about the level of character that they have.

As for paedophilia I will have to disagree with you vehemently. I was not talking about this topic at all with the other poster. It almost sounds like you complemented me as a red herring tactic to push your own agenda of saying there are no paedophiles in China. There are A LOT of them both foreign and local in this country. The teacher I replaced in one of my more recent gigs supposedly had an illicit relationship with his own 14 year old student. Unfortunately he got away with it.