Teaching adults vs. teaching children

On Friday I also had a new Japanese student in my class. Before class I chatted to him a for a bit about where he was from and how long he was going to be here for. I told him that I was going to Japan in March to teach at a cram school. He expressed the opinion that it will be very different from teaching at the English college. "Yes", I said, "but at least in Japan I'll be taller than most of my students". "That's true", he said, "and in Japan you'll be able to hit them if they are bad".

And he wasn't joking.