Random Quote
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
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 least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
5,000 TEFLers hit the Pavement
Nova a major chain for teaching English in Japan has folded stranding thousands of instructors (native and Japanese) without pay and leaving many students without lessons despite having prepaid. This is probably not a good time to head to Japan to look for ESL work as they will surely be flooded with applicants in a much tighter job market.
Does anyone in Japan know more about this situation? Alex? Marco? Aaron?
hat tip to Dave’s Cafe.




