Random Quote
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
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)
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
Darth Teacher
I find your lack of English disturbing!





ZenKimchi wrote 7 words on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 04:46 PM
I find your lack of proofreading amusing!
Sean. wrote 22 words on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 05:05 PM
ZenKimchi,
You are strong in the force. No one said typing skills were necessary to join the Dark Side. Fixing typo now.
kwandongbrian wrote 35 words on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 06:45 PM
I noticed it as well but my own blog is full of such casualisms (I think that sounds better than errors).
I notice that Darth Geek is doing a bit of Kids-In-The-Hall style head squeezing.
Sean. wrote 74 words on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Kwandongbrian,
not head squeezing so much as constricting the throat of non-believers (i.e. where Vader is in the command room and gets questioned about his belief in antiquated religions)
I wouldn’t object to a little head squeezing with a few of my students - there are definitely times where the force could come in handy in the classroom.
for the record this picture was taken with my cell phone - thus the poor quality.
Chris Cotter wrote 54 words on Friday May 30, 2008 at 08:40 AM
If only I had the force, I could throw out all my books on motivation and teaching methods. First day of class: Just scare the #!*#$! out of the students, and I guarantee everyone would study as though their lives depended on it… come to think of it, their lives would depend on it!!!