Random Quote
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Blogging Toolbox
Via Aaron comes the Blogging Toolbox, a collection of 120+ resources for bloggers. I was also led to the RSS toolbox on the same site.
These lists are fairly comprehensive and will definitely aid me in selecting the right links for students to use when setting up blogs and social networks over the next three weeks.



