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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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- 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)

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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 Monday March 19 2007

5 Reasons Why I Blog

I recieved a comment from a new reader today and I followed the link to Steli Efti’s Blog. The second post from the top is 5 Reasons Why I Blog and I thought I would play along with this. In no particular order:

  1. Reflective: I blog so I can reflect on my teaching and what I want to do with my classes. It gives me an opportunity to organize my thoughts and ideas before implementing them in the classroom. It also gives me a place to ask for advice from other teachers - see this recent post for example.
  2. Creativity: Blogging gives me the opportunity to be creative. Writing some entries requires careful thought, but more importantly I get to work on my web site design and features from time to time. This is pretty much my only artistic talent that I am aware of.
  3. Development: Reading other blogs helps me to grow as a teacher. I find new ideas that I wouldn’t have thought of and can try them out in class. I’ve found interesting articles and books to read based on other bloggers posts. Additionally it’s pretty hard to keep abreast of all the technology/web2.0 options available for ELT teaching but by reading other ELT blogs I feel I do a pretty good job of it.
  4. Enjoyment: Because it’s fun.
  5. Resources: It’s a great way for me to centralize resources. Searching through my blog allows me to find ideas that I’ve forgotten about including lesson plans, links to web sites and contact info with other bloggers.

Why do you blog?



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Mar 19, 2007 at 08:38 AM
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