Random Quote
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
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 have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
"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
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Cafe Alternative
It seems that Dave’s Cafe is not as popular as it once was. Katie has the lowdown on the move to ELT World. I remember reading one other blog mentioning the same thing, but can’t find the link now.
In any case it doesn’t appear to have affected the Korea forums.
Katie said:
David is an EFL teacher in Turkey, and started the site as his contribution towards making EFL a better “place” for teachers. In an interview with TEFL News, he mentioned that he makes it a priority not to suspend members because they make unfavorable comments towards companies which pay to advertise on his site. There is an innovative solution to threads that get a bit out of hand – threads which might be closed or deleted elsewhere – and that is the Fight Club. In this corner of the site, those who are so inclined can argue to their hearts’ content. Making top bill at the Fight Club are a thread on Been banned from ESL Cafe and the Emerging story about TEFL International.
While there is a bit of apparently open discussion about the Café (and that is what I elected to focus on in this post), ELT World is not an anti-Café or anything like that. There is genuine discussion going on about a variety of topics, most of which have nothing to do with other EFL sites and much to do with teaching English
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jan 24, 2008 at 08:30 PM
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David Vincent wrote 17 words on Monday Jan 28, 2008 at 04:11 AM
Great to have you at the ELT World forums. Look forward to more lively discussion.
David V.