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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
30+ EFL Teachers Quarantined
So it appears that 30+ EFL teachers in Korea have been quarantined for testing positive for swine flu. One of the teachers is maintaining a blog Under Quarantine The teachers seem rather upbeat:
Last night people smuggled Soju into their rooms. It feels something like Prison Break. I’m sure our value will fluctuate depending on how many cigarettes we have and how many we can trade.

However the American embassy doesn’t seem concerned as we can see in this entry titled Embassy Fail it’s not like embassy’s are here to help their citizens or anything. The Canadian embassy is even more useless in my opinion.
So last night we called the U.S. Embassy just to inform them of the situation. We weren’t asking for help or anything, but just because we felt they should know that, I dunno…30+ OF THEIR CITIZENS ARE BEING DETAINED! It’s not like we’re worried the Korean Health Ministry of Medicine for Make Healthy of Koreans is going to take us out in the woods, shoot us in the back of the head, dump us in a pit and throw lye over our corpses, it’s just that a few of us felt better about our government knowing where we were, which I realize is an irony as I type it.
bq. Anyways, the lady on the phone was very helpful!
bq. Me: “Hiya! I just thought the Embassy should be aware that 30+ U.S citizens have been quarantined right outside Seoul for suspicion of swine flu exposure.”
Operator: “Okay, well it’s a weekend, and we’re closed. Monday’s memorial day, so could you call back on tuesday?”
Me: “You…you’re serious?”
Operator: “Is it an emergency? Cause if it is we have someone we can call.”
Me: “Um…let’s see, there’s 30 americans in quarantine for swine flu exposure. Basically, we’re arrested. It’s totally cool, don’t worry—we’ll call on tuesday—”
Operator: “Okay, thanks for calling.”
Me: “No wait—”
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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday May 25, 2009 at 07:50 AM
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