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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
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
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Corner Gas
I’m teaching an advanced class yet again. This week one of my lessons from last semester was not very good. I needed to replace the second hour so I decided to add another TV show to the mix. This time I chose Corner Gas - A Canadian sit com that just got picked up by an American network. This show is funny, very unique, and I can guarantee that students have never seen it before.
The handout is in pdf format - Corner Gas Whataphobia. If you want an MSpublisher format send an email and I’ll get it to you.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Mar 26, 2008 at 09:57 AM
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joe wrote 35 words on Friday Mar 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM
When I read the title, I thought the article was going to be about that smelly kid who sits in the corner of class. You know the one I’m talking about. Every class has one.