It would be impossible not to compare them. I know everyone is different, but it's pretty easy to distinguish the good workers from those who don't really care about teaching. However, it was different when the JET Programme first began. She selected a book, opened it and handed it to me. I read where she indicated.
Most people begin their life in a new country with a positive mind-set.
If anything, they come with expectations which are too high and attitudes which are too positive toward the host country and toward the forthcoming experience. Although I didn't do the travelling, that's how I felt when ALTs first came to Japan. I was so happy just to have an opportunity to work with them that nothing could go wrong. The fact was, the first ALTs had it easy. They really don't have to teach.