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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

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 Friday August 01 2008

Moving the Fence

Infrequent blogger Fencerider is moving out of Korea after 12 years. It seems like he has recieved an excellent opportunity in the UAE, something I’ve considered doing, but haven’t. Good luck and I hope you continue your blog from there.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Aug 1, 2008 at 02:24 PM
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 Wednesday July 30 2008

Teacher Evaluations

My latest article for the Korea Herald is now out and it is on using teacher evaluations. Read it at the Korea Herald site or look in the extended entry.

Hope you enjoy this one as it’s that time to loook at your evaluations and see what your students think of your class and consider what administration is evaluating you on.

Korea Herald Readers

Welcome. Feel free to comment and leave your thoughts on this weeks column. If you would like to learn more about me visit my bio page. I have also been blogging at this site for 4 years so there are a lot of entries if you care to look through the archives. Some of my favorite or more popular entries are available on the classic entries page.


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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jul 30, 2008 at 03:07 PM
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 Saturday July 26 2008

11 reasons to avoid TEFL

Mr. D points to a list of 11 Reason not to Stumble upon TEFL at Notes from the TEFL Graveyard, a blog I hadn’t seen before.

I’d like to add a couple more.

  • Locals think you are here, because you are a loser and couldn’t make it back home
  • There is absolutely no job security - you can easily be replaced by another native speaker who is younger and better looking than you. Even if they are completely incompetent cheaper is better.

Got some more? Add them in the comments.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 04:12 PM
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 Friday July 25 2008

Made the top 100 blogs

EFL Geek has made the top 100 language blog list. There are a few blogs in the top ten that I’ve never heard of, but will check out shortly. If you’re looking to find some new language & teaching oriented blogs to follow, this is looks to be a good starting point.

You can read about the how and why the list was made as well as vote for your favorite on the list. If 100 isn’t enough to satisfy you, then you can check out the top 250 blogs.

For the record EFL Geek is number 16 - go and vote if you like this blog.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jul 25, 2008 at 06:52 AM
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 Wednesday July 23 2008

White Man Cafe

If you are a white man and tired of teaching ESL in Asia, but don’t want to go home you could always head to Japan. Looks like there’s a market for the White Man Cafe.
Hat tip to the English Blog. Original video on CNN, but I found it on YouTube and embedded it here for your viewing convenience.




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