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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
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
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
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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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