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b'Lumberjack Song\\nDiploma in English Language Teaching to Anyone, July 2011\\nModule One, Paper 1, Task 2\\nThe painful truth is this: regardless of teacher, method, resources or techniques, a good student will always learn and a bad student never will.\\nHow do you cope with being a redundant piece of furniture in the classroom?\\nExaminers\\u2019 Report\\nOnce again, a large percentage of candidates happily admitted that they are \\u201ca complete waste of space\\u201d and \\u201ctotally superfluous to the learning process\\u201d. Many proceeded to belt out their sob-sob stories of \\u201cI never wanted to do this, anyway\\u201d, \\u201cI should have listened to my evil stepmother\\u201d, \\u201cI wanted to be a lumberjack\\u201d, and so on.\\nIt had been hoped that candidates would argue that there is a place for the teacher in the language classroom \\u2013 in the corner, on the floor, at the back, under the desk, etc. \\u2013 and that they have a vital role to play: stimulating interest, organising practice, presenting language, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Several candidates did in fact take this line, while one bright spark passed automatically on account of her including the phrases \\u201csource of knowledge\\u201d, \\u201cfont of wisdom\\u201d and \\u201cfacilitator of information\\u201d in her opening sentence.'