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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
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
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
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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 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
100 Best Resources for Teachers
Teaching Tips has published a list of the 100 Best Resources for Teachers. The list is divided into nine sections:
- Lesson Plans and Handouts
- Teaching Tips
- Specifically for Techers
- Activities
- Specifically for teaching children
- Specifically for teaching adults
- Videos and Podcasts
- Newsletters and Blogs
- High Tech Teaching
This blog is featured in the Newsletters and Blogs section - go check out the list, I’m sure you’ll find something useful.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jun 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM
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