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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
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
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 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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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 never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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 03:12 PM
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Mr D wrote 37 words on Saturday Jul 26, 2008 at 07:34 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 08:11 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 08:19 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.