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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
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
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
11 reasons to avoid TEFL
Mr. D points to a list of 11 Reason not to Stumble upon TEFL at Notes from the TEFL Graveyard, a blog I hadn’t seen before.
I’d like to add a couple more.
- Locals think you are here, because you are a loser and couldn’t make it back home
- There is absolutely no job security - you can easily be replaced by another native speaker who is younger and better looking than you. Even if they are completely incompetent cheaper is better.
Got some more? Add them in the comments.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 04:12 PM
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Mr D wrote 37 words on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 08:34 PM
Great extra points! You could also add that people have no respect for your professional qualifications, and often see you as being little more than traveller who didn’t want to go home and get a proper job.
M C Ward wrote 25 words on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 09:11 PM
Very cool site. Did you program all this yourself? If so, can you not do this instead of TEFL? And can you teach me too?!
Sean. wrote 54 words on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 09:19 PM
M C Ward,
Yes I coded this myself and I am getting into web design as a transition career. I’ve already set up my Web Design Firm - Create Sean Web Design.
I’m moving back to Canada in three years and will quit teaching before that if I can get enough web design work.