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b"Whatever\\nDiploma in English Language Teaching to Anyone, July 2011\\nModule One, Paper 1, Task 1\\n\\u201cI wanna be eclectic.\\u201d (A. Cooper)\\nNine times out of ten, the teacher who claims to be \\u201ceclectic\\u201d is nothing more than a lazy sod who can\\u2019t be bothered to take an interest in the methodological issues involved.\\nDiscuss the above with reference to yourself and your colleagues.\\nExaminers\\u2019 Report\\nThis question was enormously popular, with candidates letting off steam by bitching about their colleagues behind their backs. The general argument was, \\u201cMost of my colleagues haven\\u2019t a clue what \\u2018eclectic\\u2019 means; and, even if they did, it wouldn't help them\\u201d. One candidate got quite carried away at this point, laying into poor \\u201cPepe\\u201d, whom she described as \\u201cthick as two short planks\\u201d and \\u201cquite incapable of distinguishing between such basic concepts as \\u2018approach\\u2019, \\u2018method\\u2019 and \\u2018theory\\u2019.\\u201d\\nAlthough the overwhelming majority of candidates claimed to be well aware of \\u201cthe methodological issues involved\\u201d, very few actually made an attempt at outlining them \\u2013 suggesting just a hint of hypocrisy on their part perhaps?\\nHonesty was appreciated, therefore, and candidates who freely admitted to calling themselves eclectic in order to gain street credibility received extra points here."