Random Quote
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
"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
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Beware Foreign Teachers
With all the bad press foreign English teachers get in Korea it’s hard to stay positive. It also seems that there is some scaremongering going on about foreign teachers and swine flu. Anyhow ZenKimchii posted a pic of a poster his boss put up to let off steam about this issue. For those to dense to realize this is clearly tongue in cheek.






jay wrote 21 words on Saturday Jun 6, 2009 at 01:32 PM
I’m absolutely speechless! I would seriously lose it if this was posted anywhere other than the bottom of a garbage pit!
Mr.G wrote 8 words on Monday Jun 8, 2009 at 09:03 AM
I just wanna know how true this is.
Sean. wrote 10 words on Monday Jun 8, 2009 at 09:45 AM
It’s not true, but Korean press is encouraging this belief.
Clarissa wrote 44 words on Thursday Jun 11, 2009 at 04:43 AM
Oh, dear, that’s hilarious in an awful kind of way.
By the way, although comments were off on the post, thanks for the IPA-typing thing. I’m going to link to it on my teaching blog (linked above) and I’ll cite you as the source!