VWE FIRST SHOWED UP at a Chinese school, where they were teaching English. About 50 kids packed into a close-fit, spartan room. It was all repeat-after-me learning. We were at one front corner of the room, invisible to all of them. Most of the kids were bright and interested. Two weren't. Sal gave an overview. "One's an over-achiever, incredibly gifted, and bored. The other is dull and can't keep up. The rest are somewhere in between." The sight was fascinating to me. I'd never seen, only heard of this training. Sal continued, "And their government is fairly repressive and doesn't really tolerate human rights which are different from their mainstream. They torture and imprison without any real recourse, nothing like the rights in Western culture. But what do you see on most of the face

