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

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

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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

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

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

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