Random Quote
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Don’t tell the truth
Don’t tell the truth, you might get sued. Zen Kimchi is in the middle of a nightmare that I found out about from Kevin’s blog with all the scary details over at the Scribblings of the Metropolitician.
One of the comments written by Brandon Carr (a well known expat Lawyer in Korea):
Korea’s criminal-defamation statute is a tool of oppression and harassment and the police/prosecutors are all too happy to wield it on behalf of a Korean in the Korean’s struggle with a foreigner. The law is normally applied in a lose-lose fashion to stop petty squabbles (i.e., “You’re both guilty of defaming the other! Want to let this drop and get out of my hair, or do you want punishment?”) but in this case, where the hagwon scumbad merely made defamatory statements verbally and your friend did so in writing, only the foreigner is going to be punished.
The good news is, the crime is typically punished by a fine. The bad news is, the typical fine is W2,000,000—which is just enough to get a foreigner deported and barred from re-entry. Congratulations!
additionally - the police will not allow him to bring his own interpreter How screwed up is that?
don’t forget I’ve previously posted on Why you Should not Teach in Korea and Who ya gonna Call?
And some people wonder why I blog anonymously?




