Random Quote
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
"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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
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
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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Bizarre Interview
A Geek in Korea writes about a job interview his wife had at a public school. The questions asked are bizarre and clearly the people in charge of hiring are clueless about the qualifications an English instructor needs. I’d even go so far as to say they are unqualified to be conducting interviews. Bizarre. go read it.




