Random Quote
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
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
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
"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 magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
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.




