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

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

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

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

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

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

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

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

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Saturday, December 02, 2006

E2 Visa Rules

 
Saturday, November 11, 2006

What I learned at Cambridge Day 2006

 
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Vocabulary Learning Through Roleplay

 
Sunday, May 28, 2006

EFL Geek interview

 
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

You Tube and ESL

 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

EFL for Dummies

 
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Attitude

 
Monday, March 13, 2006

How I use Moodle

 
Monday, October 17, 2005

KOTESOL 2005 - report

 
Friday, September 23, 2005

Vocabulary Acquisition

 
Saturday, July 02, 2005

Macquarie a Review: Table of Contents

 
Thursday, June 16, 2005

English Nicknames

 
Sunday, June 05, 2005

Stick a Fork in me

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