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Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
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
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
Web Design First Client Finished
I’ve finished work on my first client’s web site, a language school based in Daegu, ILE 외국어 학원. ILE is foreign owned and operated and the owner is a strait up guy - I enjoyed working with him and am sure that his teachers are also happy there. I wrote up a more detailed report about completing the ILE site over at my web design blog.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Oct 4, 2008 at 10:03 AM
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JALT 2008
This morning I recieved an email asking if I would post about the upcoming JALT 2008 conference.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Oct 2, 2008 at 02:20 PM
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KOTESOL Seoul Chapter Conference 2009
I just recieved the following email from KOTESOL regarding the Seoul Chapter annual conference. If you are intersted in presenting or attending click the link to learn more.
Dear KOTESOL Colleagues,
KOTESOL Seoul Chapter is seeking workshop presenters for the Seoul Chapter annual conference on March 28, 2009.
For more information, please check out the notice on the Seoul Chapter main page (http://www.kotesol.org/?q=Seoul).
The conference offers an opportunity to share your research and teaching insights with like-minded colleagues in a professional yet warm and cordial setting. We urge you to send in your proposals, even if it might be a first for you!
Best wishes,
Grace Wang
KOTESOL Seoul Chapter, Secretary
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Sep 25, 2008 at 02:20 PM
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Capitalization & Pronunciation
What word changes both meaning and pronunciation when capitalized?
The answer is in the extended text. I learned this via twitter, but had to search online to confirm as there was no link provided. After googling the only result I could find is from Yahoo Answers - not the most authorative, but it is the same as the answer provided on twitter. If you have another answer please share.
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Students Teaching English
Every semester in homework I have students telling me about how they are private tutoring other students in English. Just now I was reading homework and I had a student telling me that she is teaching English composition to high school students (she is just 1 year out of high school). The fun part of this was that her sentences were illogical, there was no paragraph structure - i.e. all sentences were written on a new line sort of like poetry.
garbage in garbage out.




