Random Quote
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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 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
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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.




