Random Quote
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
6 Things About Multiple Intelligences
Yesterday on twitter I saw a tweet by @cotterhue that directed me to this post titled Six Things About Multiple Intelligences You Might Not Know. This is definitely worth reading especially if you haven’t thought critically about the theory of multiple intelligences.
In a nutshell here are the six
- Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory is not a theory in the scientific sense.
- The Intelligences do not exist in any measurable way.
- Gardner has substantially more supporters in the world of education than in the world of psychology.
- Gardner is horrified by some of the practical applications of his ideas that he has witnessed in classrooms.
- In a conversation about MI if you hear certain expressions, such as Rinvolucri (and others), run away
- ‘Multiple Intelligences theory’, ‘neuro-linguistic programming’, ‘brain gym’, ‘shamanism’, ‘psychodrama’ and ‘life coaching’ are not related in any way.





kwandongbrian wrote 152 words on Saturday Oct 17, 2009 at 07:25 AM
I guess the MI theory is more of an introduction -“There is something to this, we need to look in this direction”.
One direction we don’t need to look very far in is the empty motivation, uh, direction.
I went to a horrible presentation at last year’s KOTESOL about “Brain Education” and “Brain Science”. It has bothered me for nearly a year now.
I found the handout: “Brain Education (tm) is a brain-based holistic education system for children and adults. brain Education optimizes the brain’s functions through integrated exercises for the body and mind. This holistic training system cultivates the brain’s innate and unlimited potential to develop a Power Brain, a brain that is productive, creative and peaceful.”
Perhaps I should investigate the “Korean Institute of Brain Science”, KIPS, for a blog post of my own.
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I don’t know if my comment was entirely on-topic, but I hope it was close.