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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

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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

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

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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

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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 Thursday March 18 2004

Teaching Portfolio Tips

Pedablogue posted a great series of links on how to prepare a teaching portfolio. This is a must read for any teacher.

I have already prepared a portfolio of material that helped me to get my latest job. In fact when I went in for the interview I was told I had the job and there was no need for me to come back for a second interview or do a teaching demo.  I have since found out that the other new teachers this semester all had to do a second interview and teaching demo. Portfolios work.

These sites seem more geered towards working in academia rather than in the ESL feild, but as I said it helped me. Additionally there is every advantage to be had by doing more than the next guy.  Good luck in your future job searches.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 18, 2004 at 07:53 PM
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subscriptions & other site related stuff.

Well I just checked my subscriptions in the control panel for movable type and noticed that there are now 7 people subscribed. I had no idea… Thank-you.  I will now send out notices when I update my site.

If you want to be removed from the subscription in the future, just send me an email and I will take care of that right away. I am almost ready to complete the move to the new server. Should be ready by the end of next week. yeah!



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 18, 2004 at 01:25 PM
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Private Tutors

Scott Sommers wrote about “What are the Characteristics of Asian Education?” a couple of days ago, but due to illness and ISP problems I have not been able to comment. The article that Scott comments on is from the Globe and Mail titled: Parents call in tutors when A is not enough. Scott spent a large amount of time disussing diffusion of different education ideals as well as the convergence, on the surface, of “asian” and “western” education as it pertains to the percieved need for after school tutorials.


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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 18, 2004 at 12:15 PM
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 Wednesday March 17 2004

As Sick as a dog

SickAsADog.gif I feel like the dog in this picture. It’s so bad, I even took the day off of work from my new job. All of my muscles, skin, & bones ache: even my toes ache.  So the use of this idiom as sick as a dog from GoEnglish is very appropriate. I’m off to see the doctor and get some rest. 

On another note, my ISP called me today and acknowledged that it is their problem and are working to resolve my inability to access typepad.com and blogs.com sites.

You are as sick as a dog when you are very sick with a cold, flu, or stomach problem. Example: “I don’t know what I ate this morning, but I have been as sick as a dog all day.”

As sick as a dog emphasizes how very sick you are. Example: “I heard you were uncomfortable yesterday.” Reply: “Uncomfortable? I was as sick as a dog!”

You are much too sick to do the things a normal person does when you are as sick as a dog. Example: “Sorry, but I am not going to be able to come in to work today. I’m as sick as a dog.”



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Mar 17, 2004 at 12:44 PM
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 Tuesday March 16 2004

U.S. sends English teachers to N. Korea

An interesting article in yesterdays Korea Herald titled U.S. sends English teachers to N. Korea; this url will only work for a short time before membership is required therefore I have copied the entire article (short) below.


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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Mar 16, 2004 at 07:14 PM
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